Xinhua News Agency, Madrid, February 14 -real Madrid football team captain Amos’s remarks after the Champions League 1/8 final against Ajax on the 13th caused controversy, but later he clarified that, he did not deliberately eat the yellow card in order to suspend the second round.
Real Madrid beat Ajax 2:1 away in the first round of the Champions League 1/8 final on the 13th. Two minutes after his teammate Assensio scored a winning goal in 87 minutes, he got a yellow card because he knocked down dorberry roughly, so he accumulated three yellow cards and suspended one game, missing a round of match against Ajax at home. But from the perspective of Lamos, if Real Madrid can successfully advance to the quarter-finals, such suspension will be beneficial for him to participate in the quarter-finals.
Lamos once said after the match: “In fact, due to the result of the first round, if I say I don’t have that idea in my heart, it is a lie. This is not to underestimate the opponent, but sometimes you have to make a choice at a specific time, and I also made my choice.”
But an hour later, Lamos clarified on his personal social media Twitter: “I want to clarify that this yellow card has caused me more losses than anyone else, I didn’t ask for this yellow card on purpose, just as I didn’t eat the yellow card on purpose in the Champions League against Rome before. In the next round, I will support the team like a fan in the stands, hoping that we can reach the quarter-finals.”
According to the Champions League rules, all red and yellow cards and suspension penalties will not be brought into the semi-finals. However, players who deliberately eat yellow cards for a specific suspension may be punished by UEFA. For example, in the Champions League last season, amos’s teammate cavajar was suspended by Uefa for two games because he deliberately ate yellow cards during the group match.