The Spanish defender was the negative protagonist at the end of the match lost by the Giallorossi in Sardinia
Cagliari-Roma is decided when Celik is sent off, true, but it becomes extremely heated in the last 15 minutes due to a couple of situations in which Hermoso, a 30-year-old Spanish defender who returned to Trigoria this summer after his loan to Bayer Leverkusen, plays a negative role.
Scene 1minute 77: Cagliari tries to break through into the Giallorossi area and asks for a penalty. For Zufferli and the Var everything is normal but on the pitch tempers heat up and in the general turmoil that is immediately created the two main protagonists are Folorunsho and Hermoso. A few seconds of tension, then the teammates intervene as peacemakers and the referee has the opportunity to warn both, but peace doesn’t exactly break out between the two. Indeed, first from afar and then again from up close, big words fly (the man from Cagliari is explicit in filling the antagonist’s mother with unrepeatable epithets).
Scene 2less ugly but perhaps even stranger. Perhaps never seen before. There is a Cagliari player on the ground, Folorunsho (him again), Palestra notices it and places the ball towards the lateral foul to call for help. Hermoso, however, is nearby, takes advantage of the situation, takes the ball before it goes off the pitch and goes along the wing until the action fades away and the home team’s reaction is inevitable with half the bench and several players (Palestra above all, before being cleverly replaced by Pisacane) who try to attack the Spaniard again. Undoubtedly an unsportsmanlike gesture, however Zufferli – having regained his calm with great difficulty – prefers to overlook it and restarts the game without further sanctions. For Hermoso, and Roma with their second defeat in a row, a day to forget.