{"id":9463,"date":"2026-02-25T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:39:10","slug":"gianluca-prestianni-benficas-appeal-against-suspension-rejected-before-real-madrid-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9463","title":{"rendered":"Gianluca Prestianni: Benfica’s appeal against suspension rejected before Real Madrid match"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Gianluca Prestianni will miss the second leg of Benfica’s Champions League tie against Real Madrid after Uefa rejected the club’s appeal against his suspension.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Argentine winger was handed a provisional one-match ban after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr reported alleged racist abuse during last week’s 1-0 defeat in a knockout round play-off first leg.<\/p>\n

Benfica said they would appeal the decision, but accepted it was unlikely to “have any practical effect” before Wednesday’s return at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n

Uefa has imposed the ban on a provisional basis, pending the result of a full investigation by an ethics and disciplinary inspector, and further punishment could still be handed out to the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n

Prestianni trained alongside his Benfica team-mates at Real Madrid’s stadium on Tuesday in the hope his ban could be overturned in time to feature.<\/p>\n

But the Portuguese club’s request was dismissed by Uefa’s Appeals Body and the player remains provisionally suspended for their next match in European club competition, which is Wednesday’s game.<\/p>\n

Prestianni, who has denied racially abusing Vinicius, would otherwise have been eligible to face the Spanish hosts while the investigation took place.<\/p>\n

However, European football’s governing body said there was enough evidence to adequately support a “prima facie” case against him in relation to the use of discriminatory language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Gianluca Prestianni will miss the second leg of Benfica’s Champions League tie against Real Madrid after Uefa rejected the club’s appeal against his suspension. The Argentine winger was handed a provisional one-match ban after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr reported alleged racist abuse during last week’s 1-0 defeat in a knockout round play-off first leg. Benfica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}