Barcelona striker, Robert Lewandowski, has said the three-game ban he has been handed for a red card against Osasuna is unnecessarily long.
The striker was sent off for two yellow cards during their LaLiga clash this month.
The disciplinary board confirmed he was banned for three games partly because of a gesture he made as he went off.
Lewandowski, though, feels hard done by and insists the gesture he made was aimed at Barca coach Xavi.
“An excessive sanction, too severe. It’s too long,” he told reporters on Friday.
“But [the gesture] wasn’t for him, it was for the coach, everyone knows it, because it was in his direction and not the referee.”
The Poland star has denied suggestions that he was given such a long suspension to weaken Barca ahead of crucial games, adding: “I don’t think that the Committee in Madrid has sanctioned me with more games because they are important matches for Barcelona, against Espanyol and Atletico, I simply think it is too high.”