Sebastian Villa played a separate match against River. The 28-year-old Colombian, with a past in Boca, scored the 1-0 goal for Independiente Rivadavia six minutes into the first half and celebrated with enthusiasm. Of course: he does not forget his time in the Boca team. Then, in the last play of the match, he assisted Ezequiel Ham for the agonizing 2-1 and made the “machine gun”, a provocative celebration for the Millonario fans.
From that moment it was unleashed a row between the players of both teams and members of their respective delegations on the grass of the Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza. There, Diego Moreno – alias “La Roca” -, the head of security for the River team, could be seen throwing pine cones into the air.
Villa, for his part, went quickly to the locker room and was intercepted by the Pete Martinez, who rebuked him on the stairs leading out of the playing field. The fight continued on the basketball court located outside the locker room, where the heat of some players mixed with the temperance of calmer ones, such as Franco Armani and Nacho Fernández, who tried to dissuade the conflict.
In the commotion, referee Nazareno Arasa was seen showing a red card. In the first instance, the one expelled was not any of the players, but rather one of the physical trainers of the Mendoza team. After The red was confirmed for Leandro González Pirez and Lautaro Ríos.
“The ones who started this were the River players, not the Independiente players. It seems to me that, if they sanction, they have to sanction so many that I don’t know how they are going to do it,” said Daniel Vila, president of Independiente Rivadavia.