Antonio Mateu Lahoz , of the Valencian Committee, has been appointed to lead the classic Real Madrid-Barcelona on Sunday, a stellar match of the twenty-sixth day of LaLiga Santander , which will be played from 9:00 p.m. at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. The head of the VAR will be José Luis González González, of the Castilla-León Committee.

It will be the fifth time that Mateu Lahoz will direct the classic and the second at the Bernabéu after the return of the 2013 Super Cup , in which the white team won 2-1 with goals from Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo . The team that led the late Tito Vilanova played inferiorly from minute 28 for the expulsion of the Brazilian Adriano, who knocked Cristiano Ronaldo down when he left alone. The Argentine Leo Messi scored the Barca goal that did not prevent Real Madrid from winning the title.

The first time he refereed a classic was in the final of the 2014 Copa del Rey, in Mestalla, in which the Real Madrid team, directed by the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, imposed 2-1 on the block of the Argentine 'Tata' Martino thanks to the remembered ride of the Welsh Gareth Bale. In the 2014-15 campaign he beat Barcelona's league win at Camp Nou 2-1, with so many from Uruguay's Luis Suarez and Frenchman Jeremy Mathieu and the last time he refereed this match was the first leg of the Cup semifinal as well in the feud of the Barcelona team, which concluded with a goal draw with goals from Brazil's Malcolm and Lucas Vázquez. In the return he won the Catalan team 0-3 at the Bernabéu.

The last meeting in which Mateu Lahoz directed to Real Madrid was the defeat of last day against Real Sociedad (3-4), in the quarterfinals of the cupper tournament, while he last refereed Barcelona in the victory over Atlético de Madrid in the Wanda Metropolitano (0-1) on December 1.

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