Overview
- Spain’s sports court (TAD) rejected Real Madrid’s final appeal on Friday, confirming Dean Huijsen’s suspension for the Espanyol match on Saturday at 16:15.
- The decision closes a week of failed challenges after the RFEF’s Disciplinary Committee and Appeals Committee both maintained the one-game ban.
- Referee Jesús Gil Manzano issued a straight red against Real Sociedad for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity as recorded in the match report.
- The CTA’s ‘Tiempo de Revisión’ later assessed the play as a yellow-worthy ‘promising attack’ and said VAR was right not to intervene, yet appeals bodies found no manifest material error.
- Huijsen criticized the process on social media, while Xabi Alonso must manage further defensive shortages with Antonio Rüdiger, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Ferland Mendy injured.