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Gil Manzano × Cristiano Ronaldo

20 matches of Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF) refereed by Jesús Gil Manzano, from 2012-13 to 2017-18.

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

Gil Manzano refereed 20 Liga matches in which Cristiano Ronaldo took part, from 2012-13 to 2017-18: 1,679 minutes played, 2 yellow cards and 0 red cards. With the other referees, over the same seasons (171 matches, 14,700 minutes), Cristiano Ronaldo receives 0.15 yellow cards per 90 minutes, against 0.11 with Gil Manzano.

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

20 starts · 1,679 minutes · 6 seasons

Yellow cards

2for 2.5 expected

0.11 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.15 with the others

no clear difference

Red cards

0for 0.2 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 cards22.49−0.0260.861.00no clear difference
Red cards00.21−0.0110.491.00no clear difference

The 20 matches

Minutes played and cards received by Cristiano Ronaldo in each match refereed by Gil Manzano.

DateMatchTeamMinutesYellowsReds
24 Nov 2012Real Betis 1-0 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
8 May 2013Real Madrid CF 6-2 Málaga CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′10
18 Aug 2013Real Madrid CF 2-1 Real BetisReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
23 Nov 2013UD Almería 0-5 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 53′00
25 Jan 2014Real Madrid CF 2-0 Granada CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
7 May 2014Real Valladolid 1-1 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 8′00
25 Aug 2014Real Madrid CF 2-0 Córdoba CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
25 Oct 2014Real Madrid CF 3-1 FC BarcelonaReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′10
4 Jan 2015Valencia CF 2-1 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
5 Apr 2015Real Madrid CF 9-1 Granada CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
29 Nov 2015SD Eibar 0-2 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
7 Feb 2016Granada CF 1-2 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
5 Mar 2016Real Madrid CF 7-1 RC Celta de VigoReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
15 Oct 2016Real Betis 1-6 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
21 Jan 2017Real Madrid CF 2-1 Málaga CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
26 Feb 2017Villarreal CF 2-3 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
29 Apr 2017Real Madrid CF 2-1 Valencia CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
25 Nov 2017Real Madrid CF 3-2 Málaga CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
18 Feb 2018Real Betis 3-5 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 88′00
18 Mar 2018Real Madrid CF 6-3 Girona FCReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00

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