Ricardo Gareca, who was still chewing on the worst possible defeat, said it at the last minute, with controversy, after having endured and, in some passages, even equalized the actions: “The result is fair.” And It was fair because Argentina created “more situations than us”. No more no less. “Martínez saved two key balls,” he added, to defend what his team did, “but (Claudio) Bravo also had very important interventions.” Now, without much to object to that analysis, the Albiceleste from the game was far superior, the annoyance goes through two or three referee decisions that tipped the balance and could change the course of the match.
For example, the possible penalty by “Cuti” Romero on Víctor Dávila or the ironing by Rodrigo De Paul on the tibia of Gabriel Suazo which, it seems, in another circumstance or the other way around, meant at least a yellow card. What can we say about the unusual images that the VAR provided in Lautaro Martínez’s goal.
Anyway, irritated by all of the above, Manuel De Tezanos Pinto attacked the refereeing team led last night by the Uruguayan Andrés Matonte:
“If I come to believe that football is fixed, it is better not to compete, it is better not to participate in tournaments, (but) Today I think that situations happened that were difficult to explain from any serious and football logic.“, he allowed himself to suspect We are all technicians.
“Romero’s slap on Dávila in the area was the first thing,” he began to list below. “Later we can discuss the De Paul to Suazo thing, for me more debatable than the Dávila penalty. And a final review of the goal with a camera… when there was a possible offside by Lisandro Martínez in Lautaro’s goal. “This photo was taken from the moon.”
He continued his claim: “Who hits the ball here? Where is the ball? What’s going on there? There’s no more. There really is no more angle, there are no closer cameras, it was a key play of the game. It’s a photo, they didn’t show cameras, they didn’t repeat the play. Before this corner there is a slap from ‘Cuti’ Romero in the eyes of Bolados that generates the attack that ends in a corner.”
By way of closing, somewhat calmer, The journalist regretted “losing like this, it is a shame to have to analyze controversies”. In his opinion, those who saw the outcome “will be equally in some cases indignant, in some cases stunned and in others somewhat desperate.”
“I don’t know how to explain it, especially the penalty. For me, Dávila’s penalty was the clearest play of all, he jumped out of time, with his arm extended“Something that a defender should never do, he hits Dávila squarely in the face, there was not even a VAR review,” he concluded.
