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Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham has been hit with a two-match ban following his furious reaction to a disallowed goal against Valencia.
Bellingham thought he had scored a last-gasp winner for Carlo Ancelotti's side when he headed home a cross from Brahim Diaz. However, referee Jesus Gil Manzano had blown for full-time just before Diaz crossed the ball and the goal was ruled out.
As a result, the game finished 2-2 after a brace from Vinicus Jr cancelled out Hugo Duro and Roman Yaremchuk's first-half goals. Real were absolutely furious that Bellingham's goal had been disallowed and protested the decision. And the England international was ultimately shown a red card, with La Liga now confirming that Bellingham will be suspended for Real's next two league games against Celta Vigo and Osasuna, and also fining him €600.
Speaking after the draw with Valencia, Ancelotti told reporters: "Something unprecedented has happened and it's never happened to me before. We were annoyed by Bellingham's red card because he didn't say anything insulting.
"It was frustration. He didn't insult the referee. He was respectful. He spoke in English and just said: 'It was a f***ing goal'. Obviously he came close to the referee, but given what had happened that was pretty normal. He did not insult, not at all."
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The official referee's match report also confirmed what Ancelotti had said, reading: "In minute 999 (sic), the player (5) Bellingham, Jude Victor William, was sent off for the following motive: After the end of the game and while still on the pitch, he came running over to me in an aggressive way shouting, repeatedly: 'It's a f*****g goal'."
Bellingham has now been hit with a two-match ban by La Liga (Getty Images)However, former referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz has hit out at Manzano's handling of the incident, branding it "horrific" and a "calamity". "The referees do their job more to be at the CTA meeting, rather than for football," Lahoz said on Spanish radio station Cadena Cope, as per Football Espana.
"They're trying to follow guidelines. It's worrying that someone who has been around for 11 years to do that, and he is going to be our representative at the European Championships. It's a systematic error. It's a matter of total concept.
"The timing (of the whistle) in the first half was also horrific. It's just that referees have too much ego. If this calamity did not happen, the CTA would have said that the refereeing intelligence shown by Gil Manzano would have been very good."
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