Dean Huijsen has hit out at the Spanish football federation's (RFEF) appeals committee's decision to confirm his one-game suspension, despite an earlier admission that the Real Madrid defender shouldn't have been sent off last weekend.

Huijsen, 20, was shown a straight red card in Madrid's 2-1 win at Real Sociedad last Saturday, with referee Jesus Gil viewing his foul on Mikel Oyarzabal as denying a clear goalscoring opportunity.

The centre-back was subsequently handed a one-game ban, despite the incident being discussed in the CTA [refereeing committee]'s latest video analysis of controversial decisions on Tuesday, with an admission that "the most appropriate punishment would have been a yellow card."

Nonetheless, the RFEF's appeals committee upheld the punishment on Thursday,

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