{"id":168419,"date":"2024-04-04T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/04\/la-liga-confirm-length-of-lewandowski-and-cancelo-bans-ahead-of-el-clasico\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:04:51","slug":"la-liga-confirm-length-of-lewandowski-and-cancelo-bans-ahead-of-el-clasico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/04\/la-liga-confirm-length-of-lewandowski-and-cancelo-bans-ahead-of-el-clasico\/","title":{"rendered":"La Liga confirm length of Lewandowski and Cancelo bans ahead of El Clasico \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>La Liga have confirmed that both Robert Lewandowski &amp; Joao Cancelo will only serve one-match bans for accumulating yellow cards and will therefore be eligible to face Real Madrid later this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The duo both picked up controversial yellow cards last time out against Las Palmas which took their respective tallies to five bookings for the season, earning each of them an automatic one-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski and Cancelo were both\u00a0accused of intentionally getting themselves cautioned\u00a0to remove the threat of suspension for the game against Real Madrid which follows next weekend\u2019s trip to Cadiz. La Liga\u2019s disciplinary rules state that any player found to have done so will see their suspension doubled.<\/p>\n<p>However, league officials have now decided that there was insufficient evidence to punish either Lewandowski and Cancelo, both of whom have now been handed one-match bans.<\/p>\n<p>The two players will therefore be unable to face Cadiz but are now free to take to the pitch against\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0on April 21.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01htm4whq7yc4qw2v5hc.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Lewandowski\" title=\"Robert Lewandowski\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Lewandowski will be free to face Real Madrid \/ Pedro Salado\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Lewandowski was booked for taking too long to leave the pitch for a late substitution, before Cancelo picked up a yellow for a cynical trip in the dying embers of the game.<\/p>\n<p>La Liga officials decided these incidents were not as malicious as the precedent set by Valencia midfielder Hugo Guillamon who, in January 2021, was found to have been urged by manager Javi Gracia to pick up an intentional booking to seal a suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u00a0will also be without centre-back Inigo Martinez for the trip to Cadiz after the defender picked up his own yellow card against Las Palmas. There were never any doubts about the intentions behind this caution.<\/p>\n<p>With one round of fixtures to play before the two sides meet, Real Madrid find themselves top of La Liga, eight points clear of second-placed Barcelona.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-218-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-845944\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Liga have confirmed that both Robert Lewandowski &amp; Joao Cancelo will only serve one-match bans for accumulating yellow cards and will therefore be eligible to face Real Madrid later this month. The duo both picked up controversial yellow cards last time out against Las Palmas which took their respective tallies to five bookings for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>La Liga confirm length of Lewandowski and Cancelo bans ahead of El Clasico \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/04\/la-liga-confirm-length-of-lewandowski-and-cancelo-bans-ahead-of-el-clasico\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"La Liga confirm length of Lewandowski and Cancelo bans ahead of El Clasico \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La Liga have confirmed that both Robert Lewandowski &amp; Joao Cancelo will only serve one-match bans for accumulating yellow cards and will therefore be eligible to face Real Madrid later this month. 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