“Refereeing died for me in 2016. I am a member of my club, but I can speak objectively…” Like every fan of River, Pablo Lunati maintains the post superclásico anger. Because of the way the team lost Martin Demichelis-recognized the superiority of Mouth– and also for the controversial action of the goal against Lema, annulled by the VAR.
Although he has already hung up the whistle and put away the cards, his experience allowed him to analyze in depth the action of the refereeing body, and he agreed with the vision of the vice president of the Núñez club, Ignacio Villarroel, about the misuse of the VAR protocol. Furthermore, he mentioned Sergio Romero for his reaction after his intervention in the play.
“I saw him on the field. I felt that the play was going to be reviewed. I told those who were next to me,” Lunati started about his experience from one of the Kempes stands. After the game, with a screen at hand, he considered that “on TV, the ball goes in” and pointed it directly at him. to the intervention of the VAR team that commanded Jorge Baliño along with the AVAR, Gaston Suarez.
“The protocol is misused. The VAR referee has to give the decision to the judge or assistant and has to show him a reliable photo. Not to say that ‘for me’ it didn’t fit. They did not validate a legal goal that could be relevant because a referee had doubts about whether he scored or not,” he noted in a conversation with F12 (ESPN).
Furthermore, to reinforce his assessment, he highlighted a detail that he noticed from the stadium when observing Chiquito Romero, who from his point of view at no time complained to the judge: “I automatically told those next to me that I found the goalkeeper’s attitude strange. During the 5 minute review it was strange and then I saw it on TV and I confirmed it. I get the feeling that Romero realized…”
In any case, Lunati highlighted that “River didn’t have a good game and Boca had the best game in the last 10 years against us” and marked the differences between the first half, where 1-0 would have been good” and a second half in which the difference was “pronounced”. However, when returning to the topic of refereeing, he described the performance as Yael Falcón Pérez as “bad.”
“There was a tendency in the small plays, not to charge us for things. In the first half there were many small fouls. For example, he should have sent Rojo off, he cautioned Nacho Fernández for a handball and Equi Fernández made four fouls in a row and the referee didn’t even flinch,” he concluded.
