What was experienced during Rosario Central’s presentation in the Copa Libertadores was crazy from start to finish. And it does not specifically talk about the euphoria that aroused the 1-0 victory against Peñarol, with a goal from Carlos Quintana, but rather about the incidents before the game and the stone that Uruguayan defender Maximiliano Olivera received at the end of the match. Thus, the Gigante de Arroyito became a powder keg, in keeping with the difficult situation that the city is going through with the scourge of drug trafficking.
When the attack on Olivera occurred, the Peñarol players waved their arms to quickly request medical assistance. Bloody on the head from the impact of the stone, the player fainted in the locker room. Olivera was then taken to a clinic, a CT scan was performed and he was out of danger. In this way, Rosario Central is exposed to a harsh sanction from Conmebol, because the breeding ground began to be generated an hour and a half before the initial whistle.
The serious incidents occurred in a sector of the Gigante de Arroyito stadium: fans of the local team began to throw metal fences from the upper tray at the visitors, that were at the bottom. It all would have started when the Uruguayan fans of Peñarol began to throw thunder bombs at the Rosario partisanship.
Everything was calm and it was going to turn into a party on the Rosario Central field. However, according to the Rosario newspaper La Capital, at approximately 5:30 p.m. Metal fences began to fall from the upper tribune. These security elements were supported on the stands, to prevent this type of incident from occurring. There was no police guard at the site, only private security, who were the ones who tried to prevent several Central fans from throwing down those fences.
During the scenes of violence, one of the private guards He almost fell into the void in the attempt to not allow the fences to be thrown down. As for the police, they were never present at the scene. For their part, the Uruguayan fans ran from the sector so that the metal bars did not impact any of them and in turn, they returned projectiles from below to above.
The conflict between both parties would have begun after the Peñarol fans began to throw thunder bombs towards the upper tray. The reaction of the locals did not take long to arrive, but with a more violent response, which at times could not be stopped. After a few minutes of incidents, everything calmed down and from 7 p.m., Central and Peñarol will appear in the Copa Libertadores.