After complaining about Andrés Rojas’ arbitration in the triumph against students, Conmebol took the yellow and expulsion to the Flamengo player.
Despite having won the game against Students 2-1, Flamengo exploded against the Colombian referee Andrés Rojas For the second bad yellow card, and therefore expulsion, to Ecuadorian Gonzalo Plata. After a claim He managed to reverse the sanction and may be in the revenge party.
So much was the anger of the Brazilian team, who sent a hard statement to the CONMEBOL To make an official approach asking to revert the ruling. And finally he got it.
In an explosive official statement, the institution of Janeiro River He said about the arbitration list. “What we saw on the court, led by Colombian referee Andrés Rojas, was a parade of errors and decisions that overflowed the limits of human error, revealing biased behaviors, with differentiated treatment for the two teams, directly compromising the sports result and credibility of the competition”they said.
“The images of the party are clear and indisputable, revealing the magnitude of the mistakes made. The canceled faults and the disproportionate yellow cards against Flamengo reveal the imbalance in the arbitration decisions, which favor the visiting team,”they expressed from the Carioca club in the statement.
In turn, they stressed that the errors were highlighted by “the national and international press” and aimed the person in charge of the Var. “The omission of the video referee, Nicolás Gallo (Col), and the non -use of the VAR resource at a time when the protocol demanded its participation, also caught the omission of the video referee.”
“All these elements show a disastrous performance of the arbitration team, something that directly influenced the result of this game and also compromised the alignment of Flamengo for the decisive game in Argentina”the Brazilians accused.
To close, Flamengo He threw a center into the mandamás of the entity and demanded: “The club reaffirms its confidence in the seriousness of the president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez, recognized for his effort in the good soccer practices in the continent. Flamengo hopes that measures will be taken immediately to repair, even partially, the enormous damage caused by arbitration in this match and preserve the legitimacy of the Libertadores.”
Source: Ambito
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