The match between River and Institute at the Monumental stadium stopped at 10 minutes of the first half for a “system failure” that caused the official transmission to fall and that there was no var, therefore, the referee Yael Falcón Pérez He had to stop the game. After about 10 minutes they resumed when the stopwatch marked almost 18 minutes.
It is an unprecedented event in Argentine football. When the connection was restored, Pablo Giralt, the party rapporteur on the TNT Sports channel, argued an “electrical problem” that left the match without the video assistance system for the arbitration list.
However, the spectators in their homes saw goals from the last championship that the official transmission decided to broadcast to occupy the bump. While in the Monumental, the public looked incredulously to the playing field without the players developing their activity.
In the initial moments of the party it was Instituto de Córdoba who was better, but the pause cooled the walk of Pedro Troglio’s team and allowed those of Marcelo Gallardo to accommodate in the field of play.