Both Clasico clubs have frequently professed to have been exploited by authorities however do the authority details bolster either side's case?
Merciful Lenglet's rejection for a supposed elbow on Pere Pons in Barcelona's Liga draw with Girona on Sunday caused a wide range of contention.
Indeed, even Pons was amazed by arbitrator Gil Manzano's VAR-helped choice to expel Lenglet, with the midfielder conceding a while later that he suspected that he had fouled the French safeguard.
"I took a blow yet when I got up, I apologized to Lenglet and shook his hand since I thought it was my blame," he admitted.
As dazed Barca manager Ernesto Valverde called attention to thereafter, "It's the first occasion when that the player who is sent off gets a statement of regret from his adversary for fouling him!"
It was a huge call, as well, as Barcelona were driving through a Lionel Messi objective at the time however were at last obliged to Gerard Pique's second-half equalizer for enabling them to rescue a 2-2 draw.
In any case, the dropped focuses permitted title matches Real Madrid to draw level with the Blaugrana at the summit of the Liga standings and that advancement rather typically reignited the progressing banter among their particular fans about special treatment from arbitrators.
In fact, it was immediately brought up that Manzano has now sent off five Barcelona players in the previous three years.
In any case, it would be troublesome for the Catalans to guarantee that they are being deceived by match authorities when all is said in done.
Since Opta started recording information for red cards in La Liga in 2012, Barca have just had 12 players rejected. To place that in setting, Malaga and Valencia top the table with an incredible 40 reds each.
Besides, Real have piled on 22 reds in the course of recent years, proposing that arbitrators aren't reluctant to give Madrid players their walking orders.
In any case, while Blancos fans may be enticed to utilize the way that their club has had 10 a bigger number of players sent off than their Catalan partners since 2012-13, it merits calling attention to that any charges of refereeing predisposition against them would be undermined by the job of Sergio Ramos in mutilating the numbers.
The most red-checked player in Liga history has been rejected seven times since 2012 alone, which means he represents just shy of 33% of Real's reds amid this time span (32 for every penny).
Furthermore, there have been seven Clasico reds in the previous six years (five no doubt; two for Barca), and Ramos represents three of them!
To put it plainly, Barca can scarcely contend that they are the casualties or the like of refereeing trick in light of what a small number of reds they really get, while Real can't feel hard done by, given the nearness of the famously touchy Sergio Ramos in their side.
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