Benfica and FC Porto learn Clássico sanctions, with “cheapskate” too | OneFootball

The FPF Disciplinary Board has already announced the sanctions resulting from the heated Clássico between FC Porto and Benfica, which ended in a 3-1 win for Porto. Amid heavy fines, a suspension, and one case still to be clarified, one unusual incident stands out: a person connected to the match was struck by a “piece of stale bread.”

The disciplinary decisions assign responsibility to both clubs, mainly due to supporter behavior and the use of pyrotechnic devices. FC Porto will have to pay more than 26 thousand euros, while Benfica were fined 9,560 euros, in a list of sanctions also marked by the sending-off of Clement Lenglet.

On Benfica’s side, the sporting punishment falls on Clement Lenglet. The player received his second yellow card and was sent off during the first half of the match.

Lenglet will be suspended for one match, a direct consequence of his dismissal in the Clássico.

The sanction leaves Benfica with a consequence that goes beyond the fine imposed on the club, extending the disciplinary effects of the match into the next game.

The list of sanctions has not, however, closed the book on all the incidents that took place near the benches. Ricardo Rocha, one of Marco Silva’s assistants, was involved in a situation that sparked an argument between members of both teams.

Regarding that case, “clarification is still awaited.”

The wording keeps the case open and sets this episode apart from the sanctions already defined by the Disciplinary Board.

Benfica will also have to pay 9,560 euros due to the use of pyrotechnic devices by their supporters. That conduct accounts for the financial component of the punishment imposed on the club led by Rui Costa.

The decision holds the Eagles responsible for the behavior seen in the stands, in a disciplinary framework in which pyrotechnics weighed on both sides of the Clássico.

At FC Porto, the fines exceed 26 thousand euros. The largest portion is related to the “throwing of an object with no impact on the game,” an infraction punished with a fine of 10,200 euros.

“In the 38th minute of the game, sporting agent Ricardo Sérgio Rocha Azevedo, listed on the official match sheet in the role of Match Delegate, while he was near the VAR booth preparing a substitution, was struck by a piece of stale bread wrapped in paper,” the list of sanctions reads.

The unusual nature of the object did not lessen the disciplinary weight of the incident. On the contrary, it became the biggest single share of the fines imposed on the Dragons.

Pyrotechnics account for another substantial part of Porto’s bill. FC Porto were fined 6,375 euros for “failure to comply with the duty to ensure observance of all rules and conditions of access and stay of spectators in the sports venue, since the entry of pyrotechnic devices was not prevented.”

To that amount, a further 8,925 euros is added for the use of those same pyrotechnic devices, recorded on 11 separate occasions.

The two sanctions show that the Disciplinary Board treated the entry of the material into the venue separately from its subsequent use, increasing the financial scale of the punishment imposed on FC Porto.

Finally, the blue-and-white club was also fined 1,403 euros over insulting chants directed at Benfica.

Between the tension in the stands, the sending-off on the pitch, and the episode near the VAR booth, the disciplinary report extends a Clássico whose consequences did not end with the final whistle.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.