Herrera was stopped for his rude mistake at Banfield-River

Herrera was stopped for his rude mistake at Banfield-River

In addition to blacksmith, who urged the referee of the match, Paul Echavarriato charge an involuntary action by Banfield’s left side as a penalty, Frank Quinteroshis assistant was also sanctioned on the occasion, Diego Romerowho was an AVAR judge and will not be able to fulfill the same function for which he had been appointed for next Thursday’s game between Atlético Tucumán and Argentinos Juniors.

blacksmith He will be replaced in the match between Boca and Mendoza by Héctor Paletta, coincidentally brother of the former Banfield player, Gabriel Paletta. A Rosemary Referee Fernando Echenique will relieve him in Tucumán.

The general secretary of the Argentine Association of Referees in charge of the appointment of the judges of the first division matches, Federico Beligoypublicly admitted that the “penalty that River was awarded against Banfield did not exist, it was badly sanctioned. That is why from our body we take responsibility for that error and apologize,” he accepted.

In a much more obvious action involving a criminal foul by hand, like the one committed yesterday by Lanús Ángel González’s midfielder against a center by the Colombian frank fabrait was not even considered as a presumed infraction to be reviewed by the VAR.

beligoy held that the arbitrator “Echavarría was also wrong when he went to see the Banfield player’s action on the monitor and considered it criminal”Beligoy expanded his criteria, making it explicit that the match judge felt pressured by the intervention of the VAR to modify his initial decision not to penalize him.

However, despite Beligoy taking charge, the concrete thing was that Banfield ended up losing three points that until that action it was winning and that seriously complicated its passage to the quarterfinals of the Professional League, with the consequent economic loss that this entails. And there is no VAR to solve that. But at least with the sanction to Herrera an attempt was made to do a little justice.

Source: Ambito

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