Boca’s coach, Jorge Almirón, harshly questioned the refereeing after the defeat in the Superclásico and remarked that “it came out everywhere” that the main judge of the match, Andrés Merlos, “is a River fan.”while maintaining that “the most important thing” for his team is Thursday’s match against Palmeiras for the second leg of the Copa Libertadores semifinals.
Asked by the alternative team that stopped to face River, responded at a press conference: “It is normal to talk about this with the adverse result. The same thing could have happened if the starters played, they were going to say the wear and tear of the game was enormous. I think about the team and the group, but “after a defeat nothing is going to be understood well.”
“Although today was the classic, Thursday’s game is transcendental and is the most important. They scored our first goal in the 40th minute, after a foul in the middle of the field. The game was even, we had not arrived but we were not suffering either. In that dubious play we could not reject and they scored the goal.”Almirón continued.
Along these lines, he added: “It is very difficult to play Thursday and Sunday at this time, I had already said it before. I can’t say much more. We already came with the precedent of the previous game on their court, this time it came out everywhere that the referee is a River fan, “That can’t happen… It lends itself to these confusions, these doubts.”.
“The foul was clear, the play continued and ended in the goal. The one by (Edinson) Cavani is millimetric. It is clear, the key plays of the game did not favor us, one is left with certain doubts. The referee pushed us little by little. It must be very difficult for him to direct a Superclásico after it came out everywhere that he is a River fan. The truth is that it is not understood. A draw would have been fair from what we saw.”said the “Xeneize” coach.
Furthermore, he stated: “We are left with a lot of anger, it is a strong blow, but we are already thinking about Thursday. We have a historic match, going to the final of the Copa Libertadores. There is no need to talk much. It hurts, it eats away at this type of results in this match , but you have to recover quickly as always in life. “There is no time to regret”.
Source: Ambito
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