The end of the match between Sporting Gijon and the Real Oviedo at the El Molinón stadium and the away celebration for the 0-1 victory they unleashed confrontations, brawls and shoves between the players of both teams on the pitch and in the changing rooms.
Between those clashes, a blow to the face that the local Christian Rivera gave to the carbayón goalkeeper Joan Femenías when nine red-and-white soccer players headed towards him, and that was included in the referee’s report Daniel Trujillo Suárez.
As soon as the match ended, when the Oviedo players celebrated their victory on the pitch, Confrontations took place, one of them massive and a second in the other area.
In an image collected during the television broadcast of ‘Gol’, se sees how nine Sporting de Gijón players go towards goalkeeper Femenías, whom some of them pushAlberto González ‘Berto’ kicks him twice and Christian Rivera hits him in the face, until Cuco Ziganda, Oviedo’s coach, intervenes to separate and end the confrontation.
Both Berto and Rivera were expelled for that reason by referee Trujillo Suárezat the request of the VAR, once the match is over, as stated in the minutes published on the official website of the Royal Spanish Football Federation.
Proud of the 3 points, but above all of the values of a hobby and a club that make a Mr. TEAM.
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– Joan Femenias (@joanfeme1) April 16, 2022
“In the 90th minute the player (17) Rivera Hernandez, Christian was sent off for the following reason: Once the match was over and all the participants were still on the pitch, at the request of the video assistant referee (VAR), hitting the opponent’s goalkeeper with his hand in the face with excessive force”is recorded in the minutes.
“In the 90th minute, González García, Alberto was sent off for once the game was over and all the participants were still on the pitch, at the request of the video assistant referee (VAR), launch two kicks at leg height to the visiting goalkeeper without hitting him”, he adds.
In both cases, the referee wrote that said expulsions were not shown on the field “because at the same moment other massive confrontations were taking place on the pitch and access to locker rooms, reporting it to both delegates in the locker room tunnel”, although the referee does not specify or mention more names of protagonists in these incidents between players.
“There are people whose job it is to protect, not hit the players. The images are there”, explained Pep Martí, coach of Sporting de Gijón, in relation to what happened at the end of the match, while José Ángel ‘Cuco’ Ziganda, his counterpart in Oviedo, apologized if anyone felt offended by the celebration” of his players, described the incidents that occurred as “embarrassing” and hopes that they will not be repeated.
“In the end it’s a derby, there’s a lot of tension and in the end the frustration has to come out somewhere. They have lost, they were frustrated and you have to pay for it with something”explained for his part the Oviedo striker Borja Bastón, protagonist of the winning goal, as soon as the match was over and the tangana in statements to ‘Gol’.
“They wanted to celebrate the victory in front of our ultras and we did not accept it. They’ve won, I don’t know if it’s fair or unfair, but they shouldn’t go over three towns,” Sporting Gijón defender Jean Sylvain Babin also told ‘Gol’ moments later.
The minutes also include the throwing of an object: “Once the match is over and when the away and referee teams leave the field of play, a slipper was thrown from the stands in the locker room access area that impacted without causing apparent injury on a member of the visiting team”.