Cristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid forward claims 'persecution' after failed appeal
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo said the decision to suspend him for five games is "persecution".
The 32-year-old failed in his appeal against the ban for the red card he received in Real Madrid's 3-1 win against Barcelona in the Super Cup.
He was given a one-match ban for two yellows and a further four for pushing the referee after he had been sent off.
The bookings at the Nou Camp were for taking off his shirt to celebrate his goal to make it 2-1 and for a dive.
Ronaldo
will miss Wednesday's second leg and will not return to domestic action
until 20 September against Real Betis. However, he will be able to play
in the Champions League.
In an Instagram post, after his failed appeal, he wrote: "It seems to
me exaggerated and ridiculous, this is called persecution."
Madrid
had signalled their intent to appeal against Ronaldo's second yellow
card shown for diving eight minutes from time when he went down inside
the area under pressure from defender Samuel Umtiti.
The forward
was only on the field for 24 minutes as he was introduced as a
second-half substitute and fired into the top corner 10 minutes from
time to give Madrid a 2-1 lead.
It was Ronaldo's 10th red card of his career and the two yellow cards on Sunday came within two minutes.
"Once
shown the red card, said player [Ronaldo] pushed me lightly as a sign
of his disapproval," the referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea wrote in
his post-match report.
BBC
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