Referee Darío Herrera and an XL free-kick: he will continue to “stand still” after his mistakes in the Superclásico

He Super classic between River AND Mouth last May 7 ended with a 1-0 result in favor of the local team, but the match continues. Dario Herrera, the great protagonist of that afternoon of controversy, claims and scandal, which ended with 7 expulsions, will continue without refereeing for the second consecutive weekend. He’s been ‘stopped’, as they say colloquially in football parlance, and he won’t be there LAUNCHthat it would be an “elegant” way out for him to get back to business.

This afternoon the Professional league announced the list of referees who will be responsible for each of the fourteen matches of the Date 17which begins this Thursday at 21:00 with Independiente’s visit to Arsenal, and Herrera does not appear, the referee who until the duel between River and Boca was considered one of the best locally.

If you count the part of the controversy, Herrera he had conducted on 14 of the 15 dates that had been played in the Lega Professionisti, which demonstrates not only its continuity but also the sensational fact of having seen it absent for two consecutive dates.

What comes back is Silvio Makeupwho was in charge of the VAR in the Superclásico and was “stopped” at the last appointment: Rafael will work with the technology on Saturday night, when Lanús and Newell’s face off.

Herrera and arbitration for the dispute

Much has been said and said about Herrera’s performance in the Super classic and beyond the coincidence or otherwise of certain sentences, the general feeling was that the referee had made gross errors in driving. Generally speaking, he was too strict at the start to get the first yellow cards and too contemplative for the second, which would have meant an early red card in the second half.

In the end, after the penalty contested by Sández against Solari, Herrera failed to detect Paradela’s provocation to the Boca players in time and contain the scandal that arose between the players, which caused the match to end with 7 red cards , including the DT, Jorge Almirón.

There were 15 minutes of fighting with the players who were on the pitch and with those who were on the bench. Even with the private security guards who, while trying to separate, also slapped each other. A scandal. Herrera, after having analyzed it with his assistants and with the collaboration of the VAR, fired three players from River (Palavecino, Centurión and Elías Gómez) and three from Boca (Miguel Merentiel, Nicolás Valentini and Ezequiel Fernández), with the particularity that two of those dismissed by the home team were on the bench, so the game ended with 8 visiting and 10 from the team finishing with all three points.