The numbers of the arbitration scandal: penalties and expulsions from Barcelona from 2015 to 2018

• News Barcelona paid 1.4 million to a vice president of the Referees Committee

's Barcelona

, ​​led by

,

and

, beat Celta in a placid match (6-1), one more, but with a rarity: a penalty against.

scored the goal of Galician honor from 11 meters.

It didn't seem historic, but then it would be.

From that moment until his visit to Las Palmas on March 1, 2018, that is, 746 days later, 78 days later, no other penalty was awarded to Barcelona.

In that period he won two Leagues and in that period he paid 1.4 million to a company owned by former referee

, vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees.

A gray period, now part of an investigation by the Prosecutor's Office, which keeps other relevant data.

An example: in the three seasons investigated, 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, Barcelona received a total of four penalties and Real Madrid, 16. Another example: in the 2015-2016 season, the Barça team broke the historical record of penalties in favor with 19, including the three that were awarded in just 12 minutes in a match against Sporting.

And one last example: in that period there were hardly any players expelled from Barcelona.

's expulsion

for insulting an assistant against Eibar on October 25, 2015, he has spent a year and a half without any red cards from Culés.

He broke the Neymar record on April 8, 2017 against Málaga with a double yellow, but it was also a record: 59 games ending with 11 players.

If you look back and go back to 2001, when Barcelona began its relationship with Enríquez Negreira, according to

to EL MUNDO, the data also openly favors the Catalans.

In the 2007-2008 season, in fact, there was already a record of penalties against, with 11 whistles in favor of Barça.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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