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David Fernández Borbalán × Andrés Iniesta

28 matches of Andrés Iniesta (FC Barcelona) refereed by David José Fernández Borbalán, from 2004-05 to 2017-18.

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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

David Fernández Borbalán refereed 28 Liga matches in which Andrés Iniesta took part, from 2004-05 to 2017-18: 2,142 minutes played, 2 yellow cards and 0 red cards. With the other referees, over the same seasons (361 matches, 24,653 minutes), Andrés Iniesta receives 0.11 yellow cards per 90 minutes, against 0.08 with David Fernández Borbalán.

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

28

24 starts · 2,142 minutes · 13 seasons

Yellow cards

2for 2.3 expected

0.08 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 cards22.31−0.0130.761.00no clear difference
Red cards00.000.0001.001.00no clear difference

The 28 matches

Minutes played and cards received by Andrés Iniesta in each match refereed by David Fernández Borbalán.

DateMatchTeamMinutesYellowsReds
21 Dec 2004FC Barcelona 2-1 Levante UDFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
5 Mar 2005CA Osasuna 0-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
30 Sept 2006Athletic Bilbao 1-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona↑ 61′ → 90′00
9 Dec 2007FC Barcelona 2-1 Deportivo de A CoruñaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
1 Mar 2008Atlético Madrid 4-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′10
31 Aug 2008CD Numancia 1-0 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 65′00
1 Feb 2009Racing de Santander 1-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
5 Dec 2009Deportivo de A Coruña 1-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 89′00
20 Feb 2010FC Barcelona 4-0 Racing de SantanderFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
27 Mar 2010RCD Mallorca 0-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 51′00
19 Sept 2010Atlético Madrid 1-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
12 Dec 2010FC Barcelona 5-0 Real SociedadFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
29 Jan 2011Hércules CF 0-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
8 May 2011FC Barcelona 2-0 RCD EspanyolFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
10 Dec 2011Real Madrid CF 1-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 89′00
3 Nov 2012FC Barcelona 3-1 RC Celta de VigoFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
26 May 2013RCD Espanyol 0-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 84′10
29 Oct 2013RC Celta de Vigo 0-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona↑ 69′ → 90′00
5 Jan 2014FC Barcelona 4-0 Elche CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
22 Feb 2014Real Sociedad 3-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
27 Apr 2014Villarreal CF 2-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
13 Sept 2014FC Barcelona 2-0 Athletic BilbaoFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
21 Nov 2015Real Madrid CF 0-4 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 77′00
17 Apr 2016FC Barcelona 1-2 Valencia CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
21 Sept 2016FC Barcelona 1-1 Atlético MadridFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
12 Mar 2017Deportivo de A Coruña 2-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona↑ 57′ → 90′00
16 Sept 2017Getafe CF 1-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 46′00
11 Feb 2018FC Barcelona 0-0 Getafe CFFC Barcelona↑ 62′ → 90′00

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

Andrés Iniesta with other referees

  • Undiano Mallenco30 matches
  • Mateu Lahoz22 matches
  • Pérez Lasa22 matches
  • Iturralde González19 matches
  • Fernando Teixeira Vitienes19 matches
  • Carlos Velasco Carballo18 matches
  • Carlos Clos Gómez16 matches
  • César Muñiz Fernández16 matches
  • Javier Turienzo Álvarez15 matches
  • Iglesias Villanueva14 matches
  • Ayza Gámez12 matches
  • González González12 matches
  • Manuel Mejuto González12 matches
  • Del Cerro Grande10 matches
  • Delgado Ferreiro10 matches
  • Gil Manzano10 matches
  • Hernández Hernández10 matches
  • Luis Medina Cantalejo10 matches
  • Alfonso Pérez Burrull10 matches
  • Ramírez Domínguez10 matches