Lahore
\nReal Madrid decided to appeal against the red card shown to Jude Bellingham during a controversial La Liga match against Valencia at Mastella Stadium on Saturday.
\nThe score was 2-2 and the visitors had possession of the ball, as Madrid\u2019s substitute Brahim Diaz crossed the ball, referee Gil Manzano blew the final whistle while the ball was still in the air.
\nBellingham converted Brahim\u2019s cross into a goal but the goal didn\u2019t stand as the referee had already blown the final. Madrid\u2019s players soon surrounded Manzano and started protesting.
\nAn angry Bellingham stepped in and as per the referee\u2019s match report, said \u201cIt\u2019s a f*****g goal\u201d, an offence for which he was shown a straight red card.
\n\u201cIn the 99th minute, the player Bellingham, Jude Victor William, was sent off for the following reason. After the end of the game and still on the field of play, he ran towards me with an aggressive attitude and shouted, repeating on several occasions: \u2018It\u2019s a f*****g goal\u2019,\u201d Manzano wrote in the match report.
\nMadrid will appeal against the red card as they believe that Bellingham didn\u2019t abuse the referee and that a direct red is unfair. However, if their appeal is rejected, the Englishman may end up missing two or more matches. The Whites\u2019 head coach Carlo Ancelotti opened up after the match when he stated that he didn\u2019t understand the referee\u2019s decision to blow the final whistle when Brahim attempted the cross.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s not much to say. Something unprecedented has happened and it\u2019s never happened to me before After the rebound we had possession.
\nIt\u2019s never happened to me before and there\u2019s nothing more to add,\u201d Ancelotti said as quoted by Real Madrid.
\n\u201cWe were annoyed by Bellingham\u2019s red card because he didn\u2019t say anything insulting. It was frustration. He said: \u2018It\u2019s a f*****g goal\u2019 and that\u2019s the truth. Had the referee blown the whistle when the Valencia keeper cleared the ball, it would have been right, but he allowed play to continue and we had possession. I think he has made a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lahore Real Madrid decided to appeal against the red card shown to Jude Bellingham during a controversial La Liga match against Valencia at Mastella Stadium on Saturday. The score was 2-2 and the visitors had possession of the ball, as Madrid\u2019s substitute Brahim Diaz crossed the ball, referee Gil Manzano blew the final whistle while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n