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Banned: Adriano, Shakhtar Donetsk. Stephen Pond/EMPICS Sport

'Unsporting' Adriano slapped with one-match suspension

Shakhtar’s Brazilian striker scored after taking advantage of an uncontested hop ball by the referee which was punted forward.

SHAKHTAR DONETSK FORWARD Luiz Adriano has been banned for one Champions League match for his controversial goal against Denmark’s Nordsjaelland, UEFA confirmed this evening.

The Brazilian striker will miss their final group game at home to Juventus for “violation of the principles of conduct” in last week’s game at the Danish side.

UEFA also ordered the striker to do “one full day of community football service”.

Adriano scored after team-mate Willian, following an uncontested bounce ball by the referee, punted the ball towards the Danes’ keeper after a foul on Morten Nordstrand. However, Adriano latched onto the ball, raced through a bemused defence and rounded the keeper to level the match at 1-1.

Adriano had ended up with a hat-trick in a 5-2 victory which took his side into the last 16 to continue a glorious season in which the Pitmen from the Donbass mining belt are also leading the domestic league.

The billionaire owner of the Ukrainian champions also rebuked his side over the goal.

“I would like to make it clear publicly that everyone associated with our club is deeply disappointed with the incident which occurred during the Champions League match,” said Shakhtar’s president, the metals and mining tycoon Rinat Akhmetov.

He said “such an incident is clearly unacceptable for representatives of Shakhtar Donetsk” and pledged the team would ensure “nothing of this sort ever happens again.”

Here’s the incident in full:

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    Jun 6th 2015, 4:55 PM

    Ain’t looking good for the Dubs. …

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:07 PM

    Christ that’s embarrassing

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:43 PM

    Hon galway!

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    Jun 6th 2015, 7:27 PM

    Dont seem to play well outside the pale.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 5:28 PM

    Galway have the ability to do this to anyone on any day

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:45 PM

    Lets hope its not a one off they dont get carried away.. Like previous campaigns. Here come Galway!

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    Jun 6th 2015, 5:47 PM

    Canning is class

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:22 PM

    Joe only showed up when young mannion had won them the match easy be immense when the game is won

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    Jun 6th 2015, 5:05 PM

    Galway are out of sight at this stage.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:25 PM

    Galway scoring like Tipp and tackling like Killkenny. Need to do it on a regular basis though

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    Jun 6th 2015, 5:32 PM

    Starting the best centre back in the game in the forwards is nonsense, and keaney is a great ball winner is started in the backs! Madness.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 5:43 PM

    Galway hurlers are a dirty bunch.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:06 PM

    Ref is soft.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:44 PM

    Dub hurlers are soft.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 7:26 PM

    No denying a fine performance by Galway.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 5:43 PM

    Third week in a row it’s been a poor performance by the ref. No advantage rule in any of the games and some of the decisions very questionable.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:44 PM

    Sounds like sour Dub grapes to me. Tastes lovely.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 7:18 PM

    If Galway had scored 4 goals less it would have been a draw. Exciting stuff.

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:25 PM

    Awful day for dubs but reality is there was just 5 score in it…just unfortunate that 4 of them were goals… Long road thru qualifiers now

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:35 PM

    Hon Caltra

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    Jun 6th 2015, 7:10 PM

    Fair play to Galway . Good hard win but if Kilkenny had won that today like Galway did there would be uproar and lads calling for Brian Galvins head. Seems he only supposed to let Kilkenny away with tough performances like that. It’s hurling after all not some soft sort of game for the Olympics

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    Jun 6th 2015, 6:49 PM

    Dubs never don’t up but good luck to Galway

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    Jun 6th 2015, 10:37 PM

    Don’t no what Brennan and Mulcahy were looking at, I thought there was a great crowd in Tullamore this evening!

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