Messi yellow card rescinded

During last Sunday La Liga game, Lionel Messi got a yellow card for time-wasting after a plastic bottle thrown from the fans of Valencia apparently hit the argentinian on the head, and now this card is rescinded by the Spanish Football Federation.

 The first appeal issued by Barcelona was rejected by the competitive committee, but the club filled a second one to the higher appeal committee, and on Thursday the committee ruled in favour of the Catalans.

In the document issued, the Spanish Federation said that they were unable to detect a deliberate time-wasting from the player other than the normal reaction after being suffered an aggression from one of the spectators.

The aggression took place when Messi was celebrating the victory goal scored in the last minutes of the game near the corner flag at Mestalla stadium, during the celebration a bottle flew from the stands and hit the strike on the head. After being examined by Barcelona’s medical staff and no injure was visible so with the thumbs-up he walked to his side of the pitch.

It’s unclear if the bottle, a coin or another object hit the Argentina captain and after the match he make no comments about the incident.

With the victory against Valencia, Barcelona was able to keep hard on the heels of the current La Liga leaders Real Madrid after 13 matches. Real Madrid won his saturday match at Malaga for a final 2-1.

Real Madrid can increase the club-record of games won in all competitions to 18 if the win their next home game against Celta Vigo on Saturday, Barcelona will play on Sunday against city rivals Espanyol.

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