Real Madrid Violates Football Laws in La Liga Match Against Getafe

The incident consisted of changing the substituted player during the match, after the substitute player entered, which is a clear and almost unbelievable violation.

incident

The incident came in the 84th minute, when coach Carlo Ancelotti decided to remove Marco Asensio, who scored the only goal of the match, and introduce defender Alvaro Odriozola.

This switch was the fifth and last for Real Madrid.

But after Odriozola entered the field, Ancelotti decided to request a “re-substitution”, when he noticed the injury of his French player, Eduardo Camavinga.

After that, the referee strangely agreed to “change the substitution”, so he returned Asensio to the pitch, and removed the injured Camavinga.

the law

According to AS, the switch is a clear breach of the law.

According to the Laws of the Game published by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), Madrid should not have reneged on the change it chose to personnel.

According to Law 3.3, which stands for “the substitution procedure,” “The substitution is complete when the substitute enters the field of play, from that moment on, the player being substituted becomes a substituted player.

At the Santiago Bernabéu, referee Juan Martínez Monuera did not follow this rule.

With Odriozola on the pitch and Asensio out, the match official allowed the striker to come back and continue playing.

With Camavinga injured, Real Madrid had to play with ten players, and not allow the team to “fall back from being substituted”.