“Attention, River is going, Barco is going with the center closed… Chi-qui-to keeps the ball”details the match reporter on the ESPN screen 35 minutes into the first half, Sebastian Vignoloand the image on the screen is disconcerting: what you see is a bounce off the crossbar that returns the ball with speed beyond the margins of the television.
But on the field, total normality, and no one goes out to look for the ball in the middle of the field. Chiquito Romero He has the ball in his hands and is preparing to go out while River regroups defensively. What happened? A phantom hit in the superclásico, at least for the viewers who looked for explanations on social networks.
In slow motion, it’s phenomenal. When Romero is centimeters away from being left with Barco’s shipment, from behind and in the opposite direction a unidentified flying object that at the same moment that the goalkeeper holds the ball, it shoots to the right of the screen.
The optical illusion is clear: the ball seems to hit the crossbar. But like a magic trick, Romero raises his head and looks for the man most in front of him to try a counterattack that, by the way, did not come to fruition.
With conspiracy theories, such as the recurring failure in the matrix, or humorous outings, Twitter was a powerhouse of analysis and frame-by-frame samples to search in detail for the phenomenon. However, there was no consensus and no user shouldered the issue with a worthy explanation.