Former Referee's Reason For Why Cristiano Ronaldo Received A Red Card
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been sent off for the first time in his Champions League career. During Juventus' opening match against Valencia, the Portuguese forward was shown a straight red and broke down in tears.
Pundits, social media users and almost anyone who was watching the match has been trying to figure out the referee's main decision for sending off the five-time Ballon d'Or winner back down the tunnel.
However, a former Spanish referee has suggested there was one reason why the Juventus forward was shown a red card.
Eduardo Iturralde González has said that it was Ronaldo's kick and not the hair pulling that resulted in his dismissal.
According to the 51-year-old, the official ruling is that a red is shown for a kick.
So that's that, apparently.
#UCL Explica @itu_edu la expulsión a CRISTIANO: "Le expulsa por el lanzamiento de patada a Murillo con la pierna izquierda. Venía de antes, ya llevaban rato enzarzados"
El Reglamento dice roja por dar la patada o intentar darla pic.twitter.com/NETzLyfaBc
- Carrusel Deportivo (@carrusel) 19 September 2018
Here's Ronaldo's red. The 11th of his career but first in the Champions League: pic.twitter.com/y9LbwnTZDq
- Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) 19 September 2018
Ronaldo gets a red card half an hour into his Juventus Champions League debut. Tears flowing.
- Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) 19 September 2018
1 - Cristiano Ronaldo has received his first red card in the Champions League in his 154th appearance in the competition. Off.
- OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) 19 September 2018
So, let's just go over this one more time.
What Ronaldo did was a straight red.
Yet this, in the picture below, is just a yellow. OK, then, UEFA. pic.twitter.com/94LWNR75Do
- BWRAO (@JuventusNation) 19 September 2018
This isn't a pat or tap on the head/hair. I don't want to see Ronaldo banned but you can't let people go around doing this and getting away with it. I'm a big Ronaldo fan but I support fair play over CR7. pic.twitter.com/30yLX1Biwn
- Spencer FC (@SpencerOwen) 19 September 2018
What did you make of Ronaldo's red card?
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