Sergio Conceição was suspended for one match after being sent off against Mafra, in the fourth round of the Portuguese Cup, therefore, Saturday’s derby, against Boavista, at the Besa Stadium, will be absent.
The disciplinary board has punished the FC Porto coach with a suspension game, which will be applied on Saturday, when he travels to Estádio do Bessa for the match of the 13th round of the league.
In addition, Conceicao was fined 4,080 euros.
According to referee Helder Malhero’s report, the Dragons coach “left his technical area to violently kick the ball that left the sideline, towards the billboards”.
“This act was a clear protest to the judgment of a decision he made,” it can still be read.
The referee also revealed that, two minutes after the sending off, he realized that “the coach was still on the bench, claiming that he would not leave the bench”.
“I then went to this guy to leave the bench because the match had to start over, and he insisted he had done nothing to be sent off, so he wouldn’t leave the bench. After I only left when I alerted his club rep that if he didn’t leave he would call up the match. It took This entire episode is another two minutes and thirty seconds.”
Malhero also wrote that “between the presentation of the red card and the coach’s departure from the bench, four minutes and thirty seconds passed with the match paused waiting for the coach to leave the bench and the match could resume.”
It should be noted that FC Porto was also fined 2,244 euros, for not making any of the players and coaches any statements in the quick interview and their appearance in the press conference.
Remember the moment Sergio Conceicao was sent off against Mafra:
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