Platense and Godoy Cruz are closing date 12 of the Professional League Cup in Vicente López. In an attractive match, they tied 1-1, with goals from Hernán López Muñoz and Mateo Pellegrino. They didn’t give themselves a break but 32 minutes into the first half the weather got hot on the playing field.
In a game action in the middle of the field, the defender Ignacio Vázquez elbowed Thomas Galdames and the referee Sebastián Zunino, well positioned, immediately gave him the red card. However, the squid player, angry with the decision, was slow to leave the playing field. He demanded the VAR review of the play, something that had already been done and that had ratified Zunino’s decision.
Incredible what happened in Platense – Godoy Cruz.
Vázquez was sent off for an elbow but he did not want to leave until Zunino reviewed it in the VAR. And when he finally left he got into a fight with the tomba substitute goalkeeper, causing him to be kicked out. Unusual.pic.twitter.com/4ZLohW4y32
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From the moment they took the red card, Vázquez took six minutes to leave the field, accompanied by several colleagues who managed to convince him. However, when he was going to the locker room, he saw that the visiting substitutes’ bench was laughing and he immediately rebuked goalkeeper Roberto Ramírez, who got up and began to argue with him. Vázquez went up in smoke and the fight was avoided by a member of the campus security and also a police officer.
Faced with the claim of the Platense players, Zunino, with the red card in his hand, approached Godoy Cruz’s bench and also sent off the substitute goalkeeper. “I saw you,” he told the referee to the player. In this way, the match continued with Platense with 10 men and Godoy Cruz with 11 but without a substitute goalkeeper. And he will have to pray that Franco Petroli, the starting goalkeeper, does not have any problems in the second stage.