“Everything is contaminated.” That was the first thing Lautaro Acosta responded several minutes after the match that Lanús tied with Central Córdoba of Santiago del Estero, an equality possible thanks to a penalty that Laucha questioned. At a press conference, the forward tried to moderate his annoyance, but he couldn’t.
Acosta’s sentence is not just anyone’s. Precisely against Ferroviario he reached 400 games in the Primera de Lanús. Visibly angry, almost an hour after the end of the game he left the locker room wanting not to keep quiet about anything.
When asked about the red card he saw Jonathan Torres Five minutes into the second half, Laucha had no doubts: “The expulsion was good.” However, when he opened a trial on the criminal Nazareno Arasa The Santiago team gave him, things changed.
“He didn’t take the penalty. They called him from the VAR and with 10 different cameras they saw that (Dylan Aquino) does this to cover his face and hits him (on the arm),” he indicated, despite the fact that the images are unobjectionable.
“What happens is that I don’t understand the criteria used: we haven’t been given a penalty in nine months. Yesterday I saw Platense – Barracas and there was a play with a hand out here (of his body size) and it was a penalty , but they didn’t charge it. And to us, yes. And what do you want me to tell you, what we all know and that no one can say because they are going to harm you later?”, Acosta got annoyed before shooting with thick ammunition.
What Acosta had in mind were other situations in which other teams that were supposedly harmed, were involved in subsequent controversies due to questions in the media.
“The press guys told me: ‘don’t say anything, it will be worse later’. Because I expose myself alone: the media is more afraid than me. When (the then Independiente coach Carlos) Tevez came out to speak, it was a barbaric mess “There is a leader who goes out to respond to the players on Twitter,” he said and, without naming him, he put the AFA Treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, in the discussion.
“Nothing happens to me (if he answers me), but he went out to answer Tevez, to (Juan Sebastián) Verón, with everything he represents in football! (The manager) He’s a guy you can throw a ball at and he grabs her with his hand. It’s all messed up, it’s all a shame, it’s all wrong. I raise my voice because today it was my turn, but if we don’t all raise our voices, nothing will change,” he claimed.
Lanús will play its next games in La Fortaleza: on Wednesday for the Copa Sudamericana against Liga de Quito – with a tie it reaches the quarterfinals – and on Sunday against Godoy Cruz for the local tournament. But after Laucha’s statements, the next round may be on social networks.