Suspension to sideline Gabri for three matches
07 May: Gabri will be suspended for the next three
KNVB matches. The Spanish midfielder was red carded by referee
Van Egmond in the 90th minute of the KNVB Cup final against AZ
for hitting AZ midfielder Demy de Zeeuw. Today, Ajax
accepted the KNVB prosecutor's settlement proposal: a
suspension of four matches, of which one conditional.
Had Gabri's red card been a 'double yellow' he would
have been suspended for KNVB Cup matches only.
However, since Gabri was sent off directly, he
will be banned from matches in all KNVB competitions,
including the post-season Eredivisie play-offs.
The midfielder will miss both of Ajax's
play-off confrontations with SC Heerenveen, plus
(if the Amsterdammers advance) the first leg of
the second round encounter against either AZ or FC Twente. If
Ajax fail to eliminate Heerenveen, the last game of Gabri's
three-game ban will be the match for the Johan Cruijff Shield
against PSV, the 'season opener' at the Amsterdam
ArenA.
Ajax won the KNVB Cup with ten men, but head-coach Henk ten
Cate said after the final that Gabri's red card was "pretty
daft". Gabri himself seemed to agree and apologized
to the rest of the team in the dressing-room. Hang on a
minute... Didn't we hear that one before? Indeed, we did: in
november Gabri was sent off with a 'double yellow' in the
Eredivisie away game at Vitesse. At least one of the two yellow
cards was... well, "pretty daft". Then, too, Gabri
apologized to his team-mates and even took them all out for
dinner. (MP)
Source: Ajax.nl
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