“But a few years ago and without VAR, on this same pitch Leonardo Ponzio was charged a penalty for a similar play. That’s why I say it’s difficult to measure intention”the River Plate technician justified himself.
Echavarria had not scored the penalty due to the casual hand of the defender of banfieldwhich was caused when he brushed the ball with his left arm after missing a header inside his area.
From the central office of Ezeiza the judge in charge of VAR, Dario Herrerain an interpretation that did not coincide with that of Echavarriamade him modify his decision and ended up charging the penalty for Riverwhich was losing 1 to 0.
This caused great irritation in the fans of Banfilo, several of whose members went to wait for Echavarria at the exit of the stadium insulting him and with the intention of attacking him, for which he had to leave with his assistants protected by strong police custody.
Later Gallant He ended by referring to the “The show was worth it for Matías Suárez’s goal (River’s second), which was a great goal, because the rest was not so brilliant due to Banfield’s proposal”.
“Already in the run-up to the match I had warned my players that Banfield was going to bother us and take away our fluidity in the game, as it happened, and that’s why we had to put more effort to add three, even if it wasn’t played well”he admitted.
“It’s that we needed to win to confirm ourselves in the classification of the League Cup and thus be able to rotate in the next games”he pointed.
In this regard, he argued that the “The idea was to repeat the team with which Fortaleza was beaten last week for the Copa Libertadores, because Julián Álvarez had not shown any problem in the previous one. But when he told us in the warm-up that he had some muscle, we immediately changed him for Braian Romero “he referred.
“Quintero is the different player on the squad, who always unbalances with some play like Suárez’s goal, and he understands very well why he comes into the complement and not from the start, but when he has more continuity in the game, he will only put as headlinefinally explained Gallant about why it was Rosemary and not the Colombian the one appointed to replace Alvarez.
Fairly Alvarezas confirmed in the last hours, next June he will leave the club of Nunez to be under the command of Joseph Guardiola in Manchester Cityfrom England.
Source: Ambito
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