The brutal and unusual incident of a touch judge in Spanish football: he hit a camera and left the match

As unexpected and unusual as it is violent. A The linesman had to leave a Spanish First Division football match after hitting herself with a camerawhich caused a large cut on her face, which forced her to leave in an ambulance in the triumph of Betis in view of Athletic Bilbao at home 3 to 1, with a goal from the Argentine Ezequiel Chimy Avila.

At the Benito Villamarín stadium in Seville, it was during the celebration for the goal of the Tiro Federal de Rosario striker and his move to San Lorenzo that the dramatic situation occurred. Assistant Guadalupe Porras validates the goal and heads towards the center of the pitch as per protocol.

On his way, he didn’t see that a camera from the DAZN network had intervened, trying to get the best shot of the celebration of Ávila, who had scored his first goal with the Betis shirt after a right assist from the Brazilian Willian José.

The line judge suffered the impact on her left parietal muscle, near her eye, and blood quickly flooded her face. She was treated by medical staff from both teams, who were unable to stop the bleeding, so they advised her to be transferred to hospital via one of the ambulances present on site.

Néstor Holgueras Castellanos was the one who replaced her with the flag for the rest of the match.

The goal did not make Athletic react and Betis positioned themselves much better on the pitch, without struggling and taking advantage of their options, such as that of Willian José after a good pass from the Frenchman Nabil Fekir, an action which ended with a rebound from the ball. Yuri Berchiche scores the 2-0 in the 37th minute.

The adversities continue for the guests, who in the forty minutes lose Nico Williams for two consecutive yellows, the first for a tackle and the second for denigrating the referee, so the prospects could not be worse for Valverde’s team, even if the current The match continued with Yuri’s injury in the extension of the first half and his replacement with Imanol García.

Despite everything, and before the end of the first half, a corner kick was taken advantage of by Gorka Guruzeta and the Bilbao team saw the light with a header that ended 2-1 and with which the break.

In the second half, the Sevillian team wanted to control the situation from the first moment and to do so they took advantage of the fact that their rival was with one man less on the pitch, which changed the game and in the 67th minute a great shot from away from the American Johnny Cardoso makes it 3-1.

The circumstances led to that result which led Atlético to consider it impossible to obtain something positive from the Andalusian capital and to reserve their forces for Thursday’s match in San Mamés, where a place in the final will be up for grabs against Atlético of Copa del Rey. of Madrid.