*Atlético Tucumán’s discount goal
A first hot time was lived in Tucuman in the duel between Saint Lawrence y Atléticotwo teams with completely opposite aspirations that found themselves immersed in a conflict with the referee fernando espinoza from the start of the match.
It is that before the five minutes, the judge decided to expel the coach from the dean, Lucas Pusineri, after he complained about his work. What could have been solved with a yellow card, which a few years ago was implemented precisely for this type of occasion, the referee decided to punish him with a red card. Although, in case there was an insult, the decision was correct.
He Cyclone quickly took a 2-0 lead thanks to goals from ivan leguizamon y Nahuel Barrios. But after 25 minutes the local was able to discount in a play that aroused controversy. It is that after a series of rebounds in the area, Guillermo Acosta he was able to finish off with his left foot, the ball deflected off his teammate Nicolás Romero and dislodged the goalkeeper Augustus Battlewho immediately claimed that his vision had been obstructed.
In the television replay it can be seen that the striker Matthew Colonel He is clearly offside and although he has no intention of taking part in the action, his position prevents the San Lorenzo goalkeeper from seeing the direction of the ball. Despite this, from the VAR (Lucas Novelli as responsible and Cristian Navarro as AVAR) they gave Espinoza the OK and wrongly validated the goal.
*The expulsions of Espinoza
Later, at 42 minutes the WAS called the referee to review a sheet of Ignacio Master Puch about Andres Vombergar that he had punished with yellow. After reviewing the play, the judge changed color and showed the red to the young striker from Atletico Tucuman in a correct decision.
However, this generated protests from the Dean’s players and there was an unusual moment because Guillermo Acosta approached the judge to protest, he reprimanded him and at that very moment they collided. Espinoza interpreted that contact as a “brat” from the soccer player towards him, for which she quickly showed him the red one.
The public exploded against the referee in the stadium and Lucas Pusineri, who had been sent off from the start, returned to the field of play to express his outrage. At the same time, from one of the stands they threw blunt objects and hit one of the doctors from San Lorenzo in the head Fortunately, he was not seriously injured.
* Espinoza’s crossing with a policeman
As if this were not all, at the end of the first half, and after a cell phone -yes, a cell phone- was also thrown from one of the stands onto the playing field, police officers tried with their shields to accompany Espinoza’s departure. heading to the locker room to protect him. unintelligiblye the referee got angry with one of the troops, who had hugged him to get him out. At this, he shook it off and walked alone towards the tunnel.
In the second half, already starting, there was a new controversy after 7 minutes. It is that Gastón Hernández went to dispute a ball with an Atlético player who had gone to the ground and found the red card before his eyes. Espinoza considered that there was a plan, which the VAR endorsed (because it did not intervene) and sent off the footballer from San Lorenzo in a clearly compensatory action for the situation of a game in which the venue was with 9 players.
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