Robert Lewandowski has been handed a three-match suspension in La Liga starting with Barcelona ’s clash against Atletico Madrid this weekend.
The 34-year-old striker was initially slapped with a three-match suspension following his red card in Barca's 2-1 win away to Osasuna on November 8. Lewandowski was sent off for just the second time in his prestigious career, having picked up two yellow cards in the first half of the hotly-contested La Liga clash - during which teammate Gerard Pique also saw red, despite not even playing.
The first match of that ban was supposed to be Barca’s Catalan derby clash against Espanyol on New Year’s Eve – their first match since Lewandowski’s dismissal. However, having failed with a series of appeals during the World Cup break, they were informed by a Madrid court last Friday that the striker’s ban had been temporarily lifted, pending a final decision.
