{"id":57295,"date":"2026-01-17T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/jesus-gil-manzano-to-referee-real-sociedad-barcelona-laliga-md20_315774_102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:39:12","slug":"jesus-gil-manzano-to-referee-real-sociedad-barcelona-laliga-md20_315774_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/laliga\/jesus-gil-manzano-to-referee-real-sociedad-barcelona-laliga-md20_315774_102.html","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano will officiate the Real Sociedad-Bar\u00e7a match on LaLiga matchday 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
FC Barcelona<\/strong> faces Real Sociedad<\/strong> this Sunday, January 18 (9:00 PM CET) for matchday 20 of LaLiga EA Sports 2025\/26<\/strong>, with Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano<\/b> officiating. The referee from Extremadura was appointed by the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA)<\/a> along with Carlos del Cerro Grande<\/strong> (VAR).<\/p> This season, Gil Manzano has already refereed one Bar\u00e7a match. The 41-year-old referee was in charge of the Barcelona 2-1 Girona<\/a> match, where the Blaugrana team won with goals from Pedri and Ronald Araujo, the latter in stoppage time. Frenkie de Jong was the only player cautioned for the Catalans that day, while Hansi Flick was sent off at the end for two yellow cards.<\/p> That expulsion prevented the manager from directing the first Cl\u00e1sico of the season, which ended in a Real Madrid<\/strong> victory (2-1). Real Sociedad, for their part, also had the man from Extremadura as the main referee on matchday 4, precisely against the ‘merengues’ (a 1-2 defeat in Anoeta for the San Sebasti\u00e1n team).<\/p> In total, Barcelona played 44 matches under Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano, with a record of 28 wins, 8 draws, and 8 losses. The last defeat for the Catalan club with the referee who debuted in LaLiga in the 2012\/13 season was on October 28, 2023, against Real Madrid (1-2) in matchday 11 of LaLiga 23\/24<\/p> The judge from Extremadura allowed himself the ‘luxury’ of sending off Luis Su\u00e1rez<\/strong>, Neymar<\/strong>, Leo Messi<\/a>, and Robert Lewandowski<\/a> while wearing the Bar\u00e7a jersey. The Polish player received his only red card in Spain on November 8, 2022, in Pamplona against Osasuna <\/strong>(1-2). <\/p> Regarding Sunday’s visit to Real Sociedad, the appointment of Del Cerro Grande<\/strong> as the VAR official is a cause for concern. The Madrid-based referee was a central figure in Bar\u00e7a’s last visit to Anoeta, after disallowing a legal goal by Lewandowski<\/a> in the first half of a match that the San Sebasti\u00e1n team ended up winning (1-0) thanks to a goal by Sheraldo Becker.<\/p> Bar\u00e7a’s record in matches officiated by Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano:<\/strong><\/p> Ahead of their visit to Anoeta, Barcelona arrives needing a win to preserve their 4-point lead over Real Madrid. On Saturday, Los Blancos defeated Levante at the Bernab\u00e9u (2-0) to get within 1 point of the Blaugrana team on matchday 20, the first of the second half of the tournament.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The RFEF confirmed Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano as the main referee for Real Sociedad-Barcelona. Carlos del Cerro Grande will be in charge of VAR at Anoeta, for LaLiga’s Matchday 20 FC Barcelona faces Real Sociedad this Sunday, January 18 (9:00 PM CET) for matchday 20 of LaLiga EA Sports 2025\/26, with Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano officiating. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":116423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_nextfly_llmd_date_locked":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,448],"tags":[83,190,194],"class_list":["post-57295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laliga","category-laliga-2","tag-fc-barcelona-vs-real-sociedad","tag-referees","tag-var"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow has Bar\u00e7a fared in matches officiated by Jes\u00fas Gil Manzano?<\/h2>

Bar\u00e7a needs to win at Anoeta to preserve their LaLiga lead<\/h2>