The controversial Mateu Lahoz will direct the Athletic-Barça

Already it knows who will be the referee commissioned in arbitrating the next meeting of the FC Barcelona in front of the Athletic Club of Bilbao that will take place the Sunday 28 August to the 20.15 hours in Saint Mamés. And this is not another that Mateu Lahoz, the controversial referee that always has had his more and his less in the meetings that has arbitrated to the Barcelona team.

There is not more than remembering that the Valencian referee was the one who ate two clear penaltis in the Athletic of Madrid-FC Barcelona of the principle of LaLiga 2015-2016. Besides, always it has characterised for being a referee that leaves to follow and is not very given to stop the parties in spite of the hard game.

A referee of marked style "British" that it is considered by the own José Mourinho like the best Spanish referee, partly because of that leave play (and give) in several meetings of the Madrid. In the first exit of the season, to the Barça can have him gone out another "rival" in the figure of the referee if no short the foul play in case to have it.

These are the referee's allocations for the 2º day of LaLiga 2016-2017:

Friday 26 August:

• Espanyol-Málaga (Gil Manzano/C. Extremeño)
• Betis-Sportive (Clos Gómez/C. Aragonese)

Saturday 27 August:

• Real Madrid-Celtic (Of Boroughs Bengoetxea/C. Basque)
• Osasuna-Real Sociedad (Alvarez left/C. Catalan)
• Eibar-Valencia (Hernández Hernández/C. The Palms)
• Leganés-Athletic of Madrid (Sánchez Martínez/C. Murciano)

Sunday 28 August:

• Villarreal-Seville (Of the Big Hill/C. Madrilenian)
• The Palms-Granada (Ocón Arráiz/C. Riojano)
• Athletic-Barcelona (Mateu Lahoz/C. Valencian)
• Alavés- Sporting Of Gijón (Trujillo Suárez/C. Tenerifean).