Marcelo appeal rejected; he will miss Saturday's derby

As it stands at the moment, Marcelo will sit out Saturday’s Madrid derby at the Vicente Calderón. The RFEF’s Competitions Committee rejected Real Madrid’s appeal to have the booking the full-back picked up in last night’s meeting with Sevilla, his fifth booking which automatically enforces a one-match suspension, overturned.

Madrid provided video as part of their case, which proves, they say, that the Brazilian did not touch Vitolo in the move which prompted referee Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva to issue the Madrid defender a yellow card. The Competitions Committee held an emergency meeting to address the matter on Madrid’s insistence (meetings normally take place on Wednesdays) and after studying the evidence, ruled the video footage inconclusive and that the booking should stand.

Madrid are expected to take the case to the Appeals Committee who are due to meet tomorrow and if that appeal fails, they will then seek an injunction to have the case put on hold until a later date from the Spanish Sport Ministry’s Administrative Court. The latter option would be the club’s only option of ensuring that Marcelo can play the derby.

The Competitions Committee have however, annulled the yellow card which was handed to Raphaël Varane during the Sevilla match after providing video evidence that the handball he was booked for was accidental.

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