The RFEF discipline committee has imposed Six penalty games to Antonio Rüdiger for launching an object to referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea in the last moments of the Cup final and facing him aggressively. The punishment covers the five league matches that remain this season and the first of the next one.
In the case of Lucas Vázquez, Also expelled at the end of the party won by Barça, he will meet two sanction matches. Being the figure less than four, it will meet them in Cup, and next season in case it continues in Real Madrid or another Spanish team. The committee, however, He has retired the red to Jude Bellingham for addressing the referee “in an aggressive attitude, having to be held by his teammates” once the game is over.
“In the 120th minute, the player Antonio Rüdiger was expelled for the following reason: launch an object from the technical area without getting to me“, read the collegiate's act, which completed:” After the red card was taught, it had to be held by several members of the coaching staff, showing an aggressive attitude. “Hours later, the German apologized for his acts, but the damage was already done.
Rüdiger's operation
Antonio Rüdiger on the ground during the final of the Copa del Rey 2024-2025 / Save L. Castizo / Afp7 / Europe Press
Real Madrid already had that Rüdiger would receive a hard sanction for his unjustifiable attitude in the last moments of the extension. A reality that led the player to advance to this Tuesday the meniscus operation he needed but had been postponing for the competitive demand of the white club. That is, in practice, The German will only miss one more game than was already going to be absent due to his injury.
The sanction, in any case, endorses that Madrid will end the very scarce course of troops in defense, since today it has been confirmed that Ferland Mendy He will not play until the next season, the same goes down as Eduardo Camavinga. Lucas Vázquez (which can play in the League), Asencio, Alaba and Fran GarcíaIn addition to the defenestrate Vallejo and the wild card Valverdethey are the only defenders who have left Ancelotti.
Forgiveness to Bellingham
The most striking decision is the withdrawal from the red to Bellingham. The discipline committee, after studying the videos provided by Madrid, understands that there are A manifest error in the wording of the act And he understands that “there is neither proximity to the collegiate, nor is an aggressive attitude observed, nor can it be seen that his teammates will be held to avoid an aggressive action addressed to the referee, which is what explicitly indicates the act, in which nothing more is reflected.”
