Barcelona’s Sergi Roberto has been given a four-coordinate suspension for his swipe at Real Madrid safeguard Marcelo amid the Clasico on Sunday.
The Spanish Football Federation’s disciplinary body has rebuffed the Spaniard after it considered his conduct to be forceful. In an announcement on Wednesday, the alliance’s Competition Committee said Sergi had damaged Article 98 of the disciplinary code, in which a hostility is viewed as “malevolent”.
The Committee has forced a more minor discipline for such cases, which can cause bans of up to twelve matches. Sergi was sent off on Sunday toward the finish of the main half against Real Madrid, in a match that finished 2-2.