Hansi Flick will have to watch Barcelona’s first Champions League game of the new season from the stands after receiving a one-match ban for his conduct in last season’s clash with Inter Milan.
In addition, Barca players Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski have both been fined for infringements after the same game.
UEFA has found Flick guilty of ‘violating the basic rules of decent conduct’, for which he has been fined €20,000 and suspended for one UEFA club match.
His assistant Marcus Sorg was given the same punishment.
What did Flick do wrong?
UEFA did not elaborate on Flick’s misdemeanour but he was vocal after the game in his criticism of referee Szymon Marciniak.
Speaking following Barca’s 4-3 extra-time defeat in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final at San Siro, Flick said: “I think some decisions, that were 50/50, were always for Inter, but it’s like that, we have to accept it. It’s football.
“I’m proud of my team, we gave everything, and sometimes you feel like it’s unfair because some decisions the referee made were not for our side, but it’s like that. We have to accept it, and we’ll start again next season.”
Yamal and Lewandowski were fined €5,000 each for ‘not complying with the instruction given by the doping control officer’ and ‘not immediately reporting to the doping control station’.
