La Liga took on the air of the 2014 World Cup on Wednesday on the lawn of Villarreal. So remember, when Luis Suarez had signed one of the most amazing gestures in the history of football by biting Giorgio Chellini, in full clash Italy-Uruguay (0-1). The former Liverpool and Barça striker had then escaped the referee’s vigilance, and this is also what happened on Wednesday during Villarreal-Cadiz (2-0). We were playing the 61st minute of play and the Algerian international Aïssa Mandi was literally bitten on the shoulder by Ivan Alejo, the right winger of Cadiz.
The incredible bloodshed of the 28-year-old Spanish player surprised the player trained at the Stade de Reims, and was not sanctioned at all by the referee of the meeting. It remains to be seen whether La Liga will seize on this aggression a posteriori, when we remember that Luis Suarez had finally received a nine-game suspension in 2014, in the absence of an expulsion on D-Day.
Already at the heart of a controversy
Note that the one who is nicknamed “Ivi” in Spain had already been at the heart of a controversy in December, which has taken on a completely different echo since Sunday. Following the elimination of Brazil in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, he had indeed published a tweet targeting Vinicius, with emojis of monkeys.
“As you have seen, I deleted a tweet because I realized that an interpretation had been made, and that it was not the one I wanted to transmit”, had then tried (in vain ) to justify himself Ivan Alejo. This new skid, this time on the ground, could cost him dearly.