The meeting between River Plate y Argentine Juniors had the added spice of the presentation of the remodeling of the monumental stadium, in addition to the tribute to the world champions in Qatar with the presence of Daniel Passarella and other glories that were consecrated with Argentina. As far as the game was concerned, Martin Demichelis decided to maintain the same initial formation that fell in Córdoba against belgrano and the first time that the team showed did not like the successor of Marcelo Gallardo.
With the presence of Passarella, this was River Plate’s heartfelt tribute to the world champions with Argentina
Franco Armani, Roberto Ayala and Pablo Aimar were recognized by different club idols who also established themselves with the National Team. The figure of the Kaiser stood out, in the midst of a festive climate
At 28 minutes the animal gave an important notice to the locals. Pablo Solari unloaded badly backwards and the ball ended up at the feet of Francisco González Metilli, who opened to the left with Rodrigo Cabral’s rise. The midfielder reached the bottom and threw a cross that Gabriel Ávalos finished off. The ball crashed into the crossbar and in the second play it was Gastón Verón who was attentive to push the opportunity into the net. The referee Fernando Rapallini charged that the ball had gone out in Cabral’s assignment and waited for confirmation from the VAR.
After several minutes of waiting, the technology reached another conclusion: that at the moment of the Paraguayan’s volley, Verón was slightly ahead of Franco Armani’s line, as Marcelo Herrera was directly off the field after the initial cross. The claims were heard from the bank of Gabriel Milito for the millimeter offside that deprived his team of shouting the first goal of the night in a monumental stadium replete.
However, Argentinos Juniors did not stop looking for the opening of the scoring and 43 minutes into the initial part he managed to hit. A cross to the area by Miguel Torrén who found the head of Kevin MacAllister: he looked for the far stick and broke the resistance of Octopus who flew to avoid the conquest. Once again, the referee waited for the VAR confirmation to validate the goal and, in this case, there was no offside by the right-back at the time the free kick was taken.
18 photos of River Plate’s tribute to the world champions in a Monumental with a record audience
Before the duel with the Millionaire, the Núñez entity gave warm recognition to the idols of the institution who were crowned champions in 1978, 1986 and 2022
Still In Argentine soccer, the semi-automatic offside system is not used that appeared during the Qatar 2022 World Cup and in some of the most important leagues on the planet. When drawing the lines of the offside in a play as millimeter as that of Armani and Verón, the final verdict was given by the authorities by eye, drawing the lines arbitrarily or at their discretion. Impossible with current tools to be able to confirm in which position the tip was.
The controversies did not stop there, since at the beginning of the second chapter, River Plate quickly reached equality thanks to a disputed penalty. He Millionaire he played a free kick fast so that Esequiel Boat overflow and drop a cross that went off course. The fastest to interpret the path of the ball was Enzo Perez, who got there first and dropped when he felt the contact.
With penalty goals from Borja and Barco, River Plate beat Argentinos Juniors 2-1 in a duel full of controversy
Martín Demichelis’s team turned the score around at the renovated Monumental and recovered from the defeat against Belgrano de Córdoba
Faults are measured by the applied force and its consequences. In this case, there was only a touch of the game and a clear simulation of a player from Núñez’s box that rounded off the second worrying mistake of the VAR. It should be noted that Fernando Rapallini received the green light from technology regarding his payment before the Colombian Miguel Borja He will finish off hard in the middle to stamp the 1-1.
Yes, the judge hit the hand of the second penalty, since Mac Allister’s hand was in an unnatural position, after Barco’s center. But there was still one more disputed play left for the referee in the last breath of the match: Ávalos sent his partner running behind Enzo Díaz’s back and with a subtle touch left Franco Armani on the road, who went far. José Herrera took advantage of the opportunity and pushed the ball into the empty net. Rapallini again received information from the VAR and erroneously canceled what was the 2-2 of Argentinos Juniors.
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