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Carlos Clos Gómez × Lionel Messi

20 matches of Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) refereed by Clos Gómez, from 2006-07 to 2016-17.

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Player data: 2000-01 → 2021-22 only. Player-level match sheets come from Zenodo (BeSoccer, CC BY-NC 4.0 licence, non-commercial use). No free source provides them after 2021-22: more recent matches are not counted here. Penalties conceded are not attributed to players in the source, so they are not analysed.

In short

Carlos Clos Gómez refereed 20 Liga matches in which Lionel Messi took part, from 2006-07 to 2016-17: 1,640 minutes played, 1 yellow cards and 0 red cards. With the other referees, over the same seasons (299 matches, 24,496 minutes), Lionel Messi receives 0.11 yellow cards per 90 minutes, against 0.06 with Carlos Clos Gómez.

Verdict: no clear difference with the other referees.

Cards are rare (less than one per player per match): over a few dozen matches, only a very large deviation can be told apart from chance. "No clear difference" does not mean "no effect".

Matches

20

18 starts · 1,640 minutes · 10 seasons

Yellow cards

1for 2.1 expected

0.06 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.11 with the others

no clear difference

Red cards

0for 0.0 expected

0.00 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.00 with the others

no clear difference
For experts: statistical tests and method

Permutation test stratified by season: within each season, the player's matches given to this referee are drawn again at random among all the player's matches (same number per season). Deviation = (observed − expected cards) per 90 minutes played with this referee; positive = more cards than expected. q: Benjamini-Hochberg correction over the 3,781 pairs with at least 10 matches, separately for yellows and reds.

MeasureObservedExpectedDeviation / 90 minpqVerdict
Yellow cards12.07−0.0580.411.00no clear difference
Red cards00.000.0001.001.00no clear difference

The 20 matches

Minutes played and cards received by Lionel Messi in each match refereed by Carlos Clos Gómez.

DateMatchTeamMinutesYellowsReds
29 Apr 2007FC Barcelona 1-0 Levante UDFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
29 Sept 2007Levante UD 1-4 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 51′00
12 Apr 2008Recreativo de Huelva 2-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona↑ 65′ → 90′00
21 Dec 2008Villarreal CF 1-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
6 Mar 2010UD Almería 2-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
2 Oct 2011Sporting de Gijón 0-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
4 Feb 2012FC Barcelona 2-1 Real SociedadFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
22 Dec 2012Real Valladolid 1-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
5 May 2013FC Barcelona 4-2 Real BetisFC Barcelona↑ 56′ → 90′00
21 Sept 2013Rayo Vallecano 0-4 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
26 Jan 2014FC Barcelona 3-0 Málaga CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
29 Mar 2014RCD Espanyol 0-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
24 Jan 2015Elche CF 0-6 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
2 May 2015Córdoba CF 0-8 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
23 May 2015FC Barcelona 2-2 Deportivo de A CoruñaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
23 Jan 2016Málaga CF 1-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′10
23 Apr 2016FC Barcelona 6-0 Sporting de GijónFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
3 Dec 2016FC Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
11 Feb 2017Deportivo Alavés 0-6 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
5 Apr 2017FC Barcelona 3-0 Sevilla FCFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00

↑: came on as a substitute. Stoppage time is not recorded in the source: minutes stop at 90.

Lionel Messi with other referees

  • Undiano Mallenco33 matches
  • Mateu Lahoz32 matches
  • David Fernández Borbalán30 matches
  • Del Cerro Grande24 matches
  • Hernández Hernández20 matches
  • Gil Manzano19 matches
  • González González19 matches
  • Fernando Teixeira Vitienes19 matches
  • Martínez Munuera18 matches
  • Pérez Lasa17 matches
  • Carlos Velasco Carballo17 matches
  • César Muñiz Fernández16 matches
  • Ricardo de Burgos15 matches
  • Iturralde González14 matches
  • Sánchez Martínez14 matches
  • Delgado Ferreiro13 matches
  • Iglesias Villanueva13 matches
  • Ayza Gámez11 matches
  • Jaime Latre10 matches
  • Munuera Montero10 matches
  • Javier Turienzo Álvarez10 matches