A match full of refereeing errors in Junín and Ezeiza

The final move that could have changed history / Fotobaires

If the VAR was used well in Junín Gimnasia, it could have brought a resounding victory in his visit to Sarmiento, as long as Brahian Alemán hit the penalty that Pablo Echavarría should have charged in his favor in the 52nd minute of Andhuesa over Franco Soldano.

It all happened when the captain of the Wolf escaped down the left, at the worst moment for his team that was crying out for the end of the match, banking zero with one less player. He threw the center, surgical to the far post where the former Boca y Unión entered. Sarmiento’s defender appeared there, who never looked up and always looked at the ball. Before rejecting it, he kicked the striker tremendously, who fell to the ground and claimed the sanction. The referee didn’t see anything because he was far away and neither was the assistant. It may be that both of them have not seen it. But he drew attention that from Ezeiza they did not notify the referee to review the play. They quickly let the action pass and even on TV the commentator warned “the VAR is not working”. Without a doubt, the great controversy of the afternoon.

Then Echavarría himself saw the images and confessed that it was criminal. At least that is what Rodrigo Rey said at a press conference that the referee assured.

Just as it is stated that if the VAR was used well, Lobo could win it, it must be said that without VAR he would almost certainly lose it, because when Luciano Gondou scored 1-0 with 10 minutes remaining, no one had perceived that he was a centimeter advanced, nor the assistant and much less the referee, who marked the middle of the field. But the VAR stopped the resumption and reviewed the play a thousand times and, although with a camera not capable of measuring it, drew a line that showed the local striker a few centimeters ahead. It was a sample that technology gives and takes away according to the decision of a human being. Gorosito’s team escaped in that play, as it had happened a few weeks ago in Liniers against Vélez and a goal annulled by a millimetric advanced position by Pratto.

Another human error was the expulsion of Eric Ramírez. In the first instance, Echavarría showed him the yellow card and then when they told him from Ezeiza to look at it again, he took out the red card. Actually there is an inappropriate movement of the Gymnastics player but without the clearest intention of hitting him. He wasn’t even yellow. He sounded compensated.

Echavarría, for his part, was wrong to spare the life of Guillermo Enrique, who had been reprimanded and violently entered a Sarmiento player. He then did the same with Pata Castro twice until Damonte took him out.