I wonder if Espanyol can achieve a technical victory over Barcelona? I strongly doubt it, but the current situation is puzzling - even if the three-match suspension of Lewandowski is canceled, in any case, having received a red card, he should have missed the game with Espanyol, but he took part in it. The situation looks super absurd. I hope that at least by January 8th, the court decision will be made and we will see the "legitimate" development of events and not this absurdity when a disqualified player takes part in the game violating the rules.
To be honest, I also really didn't expect that the red card penalty that Lewandowski received could be suspended like that, I don't think there has ever been such a case before. With that incident too, I really don't understand Barcelona, does Barcelona really have the many privileges it has.
Just imagine, from the financial cases that happened before, basically when a team has experienced a bad financial decline, they won't be able to buy many players. But strangely, Barcelona didn't even just buy a lot of players, but Barcelona could buy a lot of luxury players, which seemed to have something or something special about Barcelona that seemed difficult to disclose or investigate.
But apart from that case, Barcelona still couldn't win in that match, which basically on paper Barcelona would win easily.
But the fact is that even their players in that match got a red card and in fact, Xavi also got a yellow card in that match. So with the privileges that Barcelona have but still, they are still difficult to win in that derby match and I hope that with all these cases Barcelona will prove to be a foul because this team is very strange and makes no sense to me.
Barcelona's financial manipulation is a separate issue and by the way the management of La Liga is acting smarter and faster than UEFA - they have tightened the rules and Barcelona (like any other club) will no longer be able to pull tricks with leverage.
But this trick with the fact that the suspended Lewandowski continues to play (and even seems to play in the game with Atlético) shocks me. Imagine what a howl would be if Real Madrid did something like that.