Thursday night, Gym Y Mouth they played a fundamental game for the definition of the championship. The ranking and each of the protagonists of a Professional League exciting, with a group of candidates looking to take the title. But the incidents at the Lobo stadium changed everything.
the meeting it had to be suspended after 9 minuteswith the score of 0-0, after tear gas invaded the playing field, starting a night of chaos, repression and death, as has become known over the hours.
While the judicial investigation tries to determine the perpetrators of an episode as absurd as it is scandalous, in AFA they took the calendar to look for a date for the resumption of the game, squeezed by the countdown that marks the beginning of the world of Qatar.
In this way, and after speaking with the leaders of both clubs, from Viamonte Street they determined that the remaining 81 minutes between Lobo and Xeneize will be played on Wednesday 19 October.
The peculiarity lies in the fact that this match will be temporarily placed between the penultimate and the last date of the competition, which will make the situation of Boca, Gymnastics and the rest of the teams involved in the tournament dispute strange. That way, they will reach that instance without it being entirely clear what chances they have of winning the title.
Beyond the chosen date, the Wolf executives will try to resume the game with their fans and on their own field, an alternative that in the body chaired by Claudio Tapia they see practically excluded. It is worth mentioning that the Juan Carmelo Zerillo stadium is closed after the incidents on Thursday.
The reaction of the AFA
The AFA released a statement on its Twitter account in which it “forcefully” repudiated the events that occurred at the Carmelo Zerillo stadium that caused the suspension of the match between Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata and Boca Juniors following the incidents originating from a confrontation between the local fans who had their seats and could not enter and the Buenos Aires police.
“Alfa strongly rejects the publicly known events that took place today in the vicinity of the Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata stadium”, begins the text in question.
“And he expresses his commitment to continue working to eradicate these kinds of episodes that tarnish the football festival,” he concluded.
Source: Clarin
