In LaLiga there are usually expulsions every day. The toughness of the competition sometimes requires going all out, and that causes some players to commit fouls punished with a red card, or simply accumulate several yellow cards for improper behavior on the pitch.
This could be considered something normal, part of the set of the game, but today we bring you the history of the game with the most expulsions in history, a fact that has not been repeated and that everything is said, we hope it will not happen again. The match is about an Athletic Club de Bilbao against Racing de Santander, and had a total of 5 expulsions and 17 yellow cards. The Basques would lose two players for red, Pablo Orbaiz and Yeste, while in Racing three footballers would be expelled, Pinillos, Marcano and Jonathan Pereira, staying one more expelled from the referee stopping the game and giving Athletic the winner.
The rules in football specify that if there are four expelled in a team, the game must end and give the rival the winner by a difference of three goals. The game was extremely tough, as most of the players on the field also saw a yellow card. Despite everything, the match also had goals and emotion, since Athletic won by the minimum with two goals from Llorente and David López, while Racing was able to score a goal through Pinillos, who would later be one of the expelled .
Interestingly, only one of the expulsions was direct, since the rest were due to the accumulation of yellow cards, which also leads to expulsion. Since then, we have seen games with three or four sent off, but never five, which is why both Athletic Club and Racing de Santander hold the record since April 26, 2009.
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