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David Fernández Borbalán × Pedro León

20 matches of Pedro León (Levante UD, Real Valladolid, Getafe CF, SD Eibar) refereed by David José Fernández Borbalán, from 2007-08 to 2016-17.

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 20 Liga matches in which Pedro León took part, from 2007-08 to 2016-17: 1,592 minutes played, 6 yellow cards and 0 red cards. With the other referees, over the same seasons (210 matches, 14,443 minutes), Pedro León receives 0.21 yellow cards per 90 minutes, against 0.34 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

20

18 starts · 1,592 minutes · 8 seasons

Yellow cards

6for 4.3 expected

0.34 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.21 with the others

no clear difference

Red cards

0for 0.1 expected

0.00 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.01 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 cards64.27+0.0980.290.98no clear difference
Red cards00.10−0.0060.321.00no clear difference

The 20 matches

Minutes played and cards received by Pedro León in each match refereed by David Fernández Borbalán.

DateMatchTeamMinutesYellowsReds
7 Oct 2007Real Zaragoza 3-0 Levante UDLevante UD↑ 55′ → 90′00
13 Jan 2008Levante UD 0-2 Real Madrid CFLevante UD0′ → 69′00
15 Nov 2008Real Valladolid 1-0 Real Madrid CFReal Valladolid0′ → 69′10
1 Mar 2009Valencia CF 1-2 Real ValladolidReal Valladolid0′ → 90′00
26 Apr 2009Real Valladolid 0-0 CA OsasunaReal Valladolid0′ → 90′10
23 May 2009Real Valladolid 1-2 Sporting de GijónReal Valladolid0′ → 90′00
22 Nov 2009RCD Espanyol 0-2 Getafe CFGetafe CF0′ → 88′10
25 Mar 2010Getafe CF 2-4 Real Madrid CFGetafe CF0′ → 90′00
15 May 2010Atlético Madrid 0-3 Getafe CFGetafe CF0′ → 90′00
17 Mar 2012Getafe CF 1-0 Real SociedadGetafe CF0′ → 84′00
22 Sept 2013Real Madrid CF 4-1 Getafe CFGetafe CF0′ → 90′10
19 Jan 2014Getafe CF 2-2 Real SociedadGetafe CF0′ → 90′00
13 Apr 2014Getafe CF 0-2 Atlético MadridGetafe CF0′ → 90′00
28 Apr 2015FC Barcelona 6-0 Getafe CFGetafe CF0′ → 76′00
18 Oct 2015Getafe CF 4-0 UD Las PalmasGetafe CF0′ → 70′00
19 Dec 2015Valencia CF 2-2 Getafe CFGetafe CF↑ 69′ → 90′10
30 Oct 2016SD Eibar 2-1 Villarreal CFSD Eibar0′ → 90′10
15 Jan 2017Sporting de Gijón 2-3 SD EibarSD Eibar0′ → 90′00
18 Mar 2017SD Eibar 1-1 RCD EspanyolSD Eibar0′ → 90′00
6 May 2017Atlético Madrid 1-0 SD EibarSD Eibar0′ → 90′00

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

Pedro León with other referees

  • Alfonso Álvarez17 matches
  • Carlos Clos Gómez17 matches
  • Mateu Lahoz17 matches
  • Estrada Fernández16 matches
  • Undiano Mallenco15 matches
  • González González12 matches
  • Melero López12 matches
  • Fernando Teixeira Vitienes12 matches
  • Iglesias Villanueva11 matches
  • Jaime Latre11 matches
  • Prieto Iglesias11 matches
  • Martínez Munuera10 matches
  • Pérez Montero10 matches