The referee who will whistle this next Sunday (4.15pm / Movistar LaLiga) is already known Barça-Real Madrid at the Camp Nou. It will be the Murcian international Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez, as we already advanced last night in Mundo Deportivo. A classic that has been in the best professional moment of the Spanish referee who on September 15 whistled his first meeting in the Champions League. One more step in the extraordinary career of the Spanish referee that amounted to First division in 2015 and has had international status since 2017. He just received a few weeks ago the award as the best referee of the year 2020.
This season Sánchez Martínez has not whistled FC Barcelona and only once a Real Madrid. It was on the fifth day that it ended with the white team’s win 5-2 at Celta Vigo.
This campaign has already called games of enormous importance such as Real Madrid-Celta of the fourth day or the Seville-Valencia of the sixth day of last September 22 or the Villarreal-Betis of the eighth day. It is the last game he has whistled in First since last weekend he rested.
To the Barcelona he has led him 24 times with 19 wins, 2 draws and three defeats. In the case of Real Madrid He has led it 23 times with 13 wins, five draws and five losses.
It will be his fifth classic in the career of the Murcian referee. It premiered at the Spain Supercup back from 2017 that ended with a 2-0 white victory in the Santiago Bernabeu. It was the only white victory because the next three have ended with Barça victories and even goals. The first was in the League with 0-3 in the Bernabeu in the 2017-2118 season. In the following the azulgranas thrashed 5-1 at Real Madrid at the Camp Nou. The last one goes back to the second leg Cup qualifying round of the semifinals of 2018-2019, also with a 0-3 victory for Barça in the Bernabeu.
In addition, last season he was the VAR referee of the Barcelona- Real Madrid from last season. It was precisely the Murcian who warned Martinez Munuera to go check the action of Lenglet with Bouquets which ended in a penalty and the Madrid captain ended up scoring. In the VAR of Classic this sunday will be González González.
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