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If there was a footballer who just a year ago wanted to play the insignificant last day of the championship against the Unionistas, it was him. Alberto Quiles. The man from Huelva discussed pichichi with the then Barcelona player Ferran Jutgla, but he couldn’t play because the risk was too great. The striker had a total of four yellow cards in the League and was only one short of the fifth that would have caused him to miss the semi-finals. play promotion against Linares. Of course, Quiles didn’t play that game. Or Mikuwho was in the same situation.

Twelve months later, Deportivo once again reached the final day of the championship, entering the promotion phase. On this occasion, something is at stake, because in the fight for third place with Real Madrid Castilla, a position that gives home field advantage in the first round and the possibility of going through the round without a win if the tie continues after overtime. But Ruben de la Barrera He will have to assess whether, in order to achieve this, it is worth taking a risk with the three cautioned players he has: the central Adrian Lapena and midfielders Mario Soriano and Kuki Zalazar.

“In the National League Championship, the accumulation of five of these corrections during the same season and competition will determine a suspension for one match,” explains article 112 of the Disciplinary Code of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. As the play off is within the same season and it is the second stage of the same competition, if Lapeña, Kuki or Soriano saw a yellow card in Pasarón, they would be punished with a match suspension.

Interestingly, if Deportivo had not played the promotion phase and these footballers had received a fifth yellow card, the penalty would not have been carried over to the next season. “The rule contained in this article will not apply in those cases in which the warning that would have the player comply with the cycle to which this rule refers occurs in the last match that the club plays in the competition in question. be treated” , qualifies point 4 of the said article , changes introduced three years ago.

counter to zero

And what happens to the league’s warnings for the promotion phase? Do they crawl? «In the Spanish Championship SM El Rey Cup, the Cup of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the second stage or the promotion of the national championship of the League of the Second League, the Second Division B and the Third League, the Division Champions Cup of Youth Honor, the Spanish Youth Cup SM el Rey and the Cup of the Spanish Championship SM la Reina, the accumulation of three of these corrections during the same season and competition will determine a suspension for one game,” says the Disciplinary Code, in the same article 112.

Therefore, when the regular season ends, all players will reset their card box to zero and will only be penalized if they see three consecutive cards in the first two semi-finals and the first in the final.