The Athletic of Madrid had reasons to complain of the arbitration of Gil Manzano along the turn of semifinals of Glass of the King 2016-17, but the reality is that the FC Barcelona also. In addition to the unfair expulsions of Sergi Roberto and Luis Suárez, the referee also pitó a rigorous penalti of Gerard Hammered on Kevin Gameiro in the second half.

The roulette of the fortune wanted to that the French forward sent it out of the goal of Cillessen, but was an action that well could have contributed to change the eliminatory in the Camp Nou. In an action of the second half, Gerard Hammered threw to the lawn in the interior of the area for rebañar a balloon that had Kevin Gameiro, frank for the finish to door.

Rigorous maximum penalty against the FC Barcelona

The central Catalan of the Barcelona attained to divert the balloon and also touched slightly the boot of the French, that left fall when noticing the most slight contact. The collegiate Gil Manzano hammered and pitó penalti, one of those maximum penalties that never -or very few times- signal in favour of the FC Barcelona in the contrary areas from does months.

It was a sample more than the easy trigger of Gil Manzano to the hour of pitar in the Camp Nou. There was a penalti, three expulsions and eleven yellow, some excessive statistics for a party in which it shined the football, and that it was intense but without aggressiveness antideportiva by part of the players.