The double scene that could have cost the expulsion to Umtiti

To day of today, and after the spectacular start of season 2017-18 that is starring, anybody doubts that Samuel Umtiti is the best head office of LaLiga Santander and one of the best of the world, by not saying the best in the actuality. The French is shining to a level of incredible game, that constitutes a safe of life backwards for the FC Barcelona.

This Saturday went back to sign a big performance in front of the Athletic of Bilbao in Saint Mamés, but in the last minutes took too many risks and ready was to be expelled by the collegiate Martínez Munuera. When they were missing around five minutes for the end and the Barça commanded by a goal of difference in the marker, Umtiti lost something of time in the kickoff of a fault.

The referee decided to show him then the yellow cardboard, but immediately afterwards the defender Frenchman smiled and began to applaud him, a gesture that is used to to be condemned with an extra yellow card in a lot of cases and in the majority of the Leagues.

In favour of Umtiti played the fact that the referee of the just meeting finish of girarsand, and therefore it did not see how Umtiti him aplaudiía. Diverse players of the Athletic of Bilbao warned him to try that it expelled to Umtiti, but finally did not do it and the defender of the Barça saved of an expulsion that would have prejudiced him notably, to him and to the Barça.

Umtiti Would have lost the Barça-Seville

And it is that, in the case to having had to leave before to the changing rooms, Umtiti would not have been able to play the next weekend the commitment of League against the Seville in the Camp Nou, the one who will be the last party of the Barça before the stop of selections of November. Fortunately it did not go like this, and the player of the Barcelona could finish the party with normality.