They would likely be rested for their dead-rubber against Auxerre in the final group match meaning they would carry their bookings into the knockout rounds. Not if they picked up a second yellow, though, meaning they would be suspended for the game against Auxerre and having their slate wiped clean for the last And Mourinho could be seen telling Alonso, while he ordered Jerzy Dudek to run around the pitch to tell Iker Casillas to pass the message onto Ramos.
Both Alonso and Ramos picked up second bookings for wasting time in injury-time when they were already up. In fact, Ramos even took a goal-kick in order to have the opportunity to waste some time and shook the ref's hand on his way off the pitch!
An appeal may be lodged against the ruling within three days of the dispatch of the reasoning for the decision. When the bookings were mentioned to their team-mate Karim Benzema, he said that "everything had gone well". When I saw the cards, what I had been thinking about doing [in the second leg] was ruined. Levante's Sergio Ballesteros was handed a two-game ban in the Europa League for deliberately seeking a yellow card this season. The difference then was that the cards they sought were red, not yellow, and there was an elaborate pantomime surrounding them.
Dudek, instructed by Mourinho, left the bench to pass a message to Casillas who then communicated the orders to the two players. Ramos also insisted there was nothing deliberate about his dismissal, saying: "We didn't go looking for the cards. Seeing what the score was, the referee could have saved them.
But he sent me off and that's that. This article is more than 10 years old. Topics Real Madrid Laws of football Uefa news.
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