andhe match between Junior and Millonarios, at the Roberto Meléndez Metropolitan Stadium, in Barranquilla, had another very hot ending. The Colombian champion won 2-1 and with that put itself at the front of group A, in the semi-final quadrangles of the 2024-I League.
Junior was winning well and was able to continue ahead, but at the end of the match, those led by Alberto Gamero were close to tying. However, the blue players ended up protesting to judge Carlos Betancur and then there was a clash with the Police.
In the last minutes of the match there were several interventions by the center back and the VAR. First, at 37 in the second stage, Emanuel Olivera, from the local team, was sent off for a double yellow.
Three minutes later, Betancur, with the help of video refereeing, awarded a penalty by Jermein Peña, who attacked Leonardo Castro with a punch. However, he barely showed him a yellow card. The victim himself took charge to score the extra goal, at 42 minutes into the second half.
They also complained to the judge that he only gave five minutes of replacement, despite the fact that there were two VAR reviews, one on Peña’s penalty and another, due to Larry Vásquez’s foul that ended in Junior’s 2-0, converted by Carlos Bacca.
In the end, Several Millos players went after Betancur. Then some of them ended up in a clash with members of the Police on the athletic track.
Millonarios’ version of what happened
The work of the Police, according to the same source, was to stop several of the blue players so that the matter did not escalate. The person who attacked Giordana is an employee of the Barranquilla Mayor’s Office.
The lieutenant colonel in charge of the operation even apologized to the members of Millonarios for what happened.
Alberto Gamero, the coach of Millonarios, recognized that the attitude of his players at the end of the game was not correct. “The group’s mistake was going out to look for the referee. There are five games left and we can’t earn any sanctions,” he declared.
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