Sporting Lisbon FC are reportedly will proceed with an appeal to the Disciplinary Board of the Portuguese Football Federation, following the three-game bam applied by that disciplinary body to Paulinho.
Paulinho, who already had a yellow card for taking down Otavio from behind in an attack by FC Porto on Saturday, hit the midfielder for the Dragons with his elbow in the face, saw the second yellow card and was sent off in the 72nd minute, in the League Cup final.
The striker automatically picked up a ban game. The other two ban games result from words addressed to the refereeing team while leaving the field of play, with the map of punishments from the FPF CD, released, noting that the Sporting striker “went to the fourth referee with his finger in riste” to leave offenses to the team led by Joao Pinheiro.
Paulinho, who has already played a game against Sporting de Braga, on Wednesday, will miss Rio Ave, on February 6th, and the classic against FC Porto, on February 12th.
“After leaving the field, already sent off, he went to the 4th referee with the finger of his right hand and said ‘corrupt, corrupt, you are corrupt’,” the referee’s report reads on the card is indicated by Punishments by the FPF Disciplinary Board.
Paulinho is one of the usual starters of the “Green and White” team, led by coach Ruben Amorim, and has scored 11 goals in 24 matches, eight of those goals in the League Cup.
FC Porto won the Football League Cup for the first time on Saturday, after beating Sporting by 2-0 in the final of the competition, in a game played at Estadio Municipal Dr. Magalhaes Pessoa, in Leiria, with goals from Stephen Eustáquio and Ivan Marcano.
