Rui Costa, chairman of Benfica, was suspended for eight days on Thursday and fined €102 by the Disciplinary Board (CD) of the Portuguese Football Association after criticizing referee Tiago Martins at the end of the quarter-finals. the Portuguese Cup, in Braga, which the Reds lost in the penalty shoot-out.
It should be remembered that at the end of the match, next to the changing rooms, Rui Costa directly confronted the Lisbon referee about the criterion in the bid in which he claimed a penalty against Gonçalo Guedes, even mentioning that he had a different interpretation had in the derby with Sporting in an attempted penalty on Paulinho.
The CD justifies the suspension with the “use of rude, inappropriate or incorrect expressions or gestures”.
Of that Portuguese Cup match, it is also worth noting that Benfica was fined 3,876 euros for the “entrance and permanence of pyrotechnic materials” in the venue, as well as the fact that they were detonated during the match.
Already the Sp. Braga was also fined €2,448 for using pyrotechnic material.
I Liga derby yields almost 30,000 euros in fines
On the other hand, the Disciplinary Board imposed a total of 29,858 euros in fines due to situations recorded last Sunday in the Sporting-FC Porto classic at Estádio José Alvalade, counting towards the 20th round of the I Liga.
Of this amount, the lions pay 23,358 euros, while the dragons were fined 6,500 euros.
Source: DN
