Hot final Lanús-Unión: what happened between the Russian Zielinski and Kily González?

The great match that opened the 12th round of the Professional Football League Cup and which ended with a 2-2 draw between Lanús and Unión had a boiling epilogue at the Néstor Díaz Pérez stadium: Ricardo Zielinski and Cristian González, the coaches both teams discussed heatedly first on the pitch and then in the tunnel leading to the locker rooms. Forceand the players of the two teams staged an attempted skirmish along the route to the locker rooms.

The duel, in which the local team tried to reach the top of group B and the visiting team tried to conquer the qualifying positions for the playoffs, was a rollercoaster of emotions: Tatengue took a two-goal lead before the end of half an hour of play, but the Garnet He scored just before half-time and ended up scoring in injury time.

Right in the last part of the match the temperature rose more than expected, based on complaints from Lanús players and members of the coaching staff about the delays in the match. In the 43rd minute of the match, Claudio Corvalán fell to the grass, claiming that a cramp in his right leg prevented him from getting up.

That interruption, which was not the first of the match due to some difficulty by the Santa Fe players, particularly irritated Zielinski, who understood that the Unión captain was simulating. The DT turned to the host bank to complain to Cristian González about that situation. The two coaches argued on the grass and exchanged some words that would then kick off the second chapter of their counterpoint.

In the third of the six minutes granted by referee Fernando Echenique and when it seemed that Unión would take three precious points in their quest for a place in the League Cup playoffs, Lanús equalized with a volley from Favio Álvarez from the half-moon . At that time, some players of the Tatengue They reported an alleged infringement against Jerónimo Domina at the beginning of the maneuver.

After the final whistle, Echenique was surrounded by Unión players and assistants, while Ricardo Zielinski and Cristian González argued towards the changing rooms after the visiting coach refused to greet his colleague. The players of both teams also ended up converging in the tunnel, exchanging complaints, insults and shoving. After a few seconds of tension, things finally calmed down.

In the post-match press conferences, the most prominent protagonists of the night’s dispute referred to what had happened a few minutes earlier. “With Kily I made a mistake before because I told him something about the weather. But nothing happened”, tries to lower the decibels Zielinski, who also appreciates the point saved by him: “We didn’t deserve to lose, we spent the whole match and in two slightly strange plays they converted us. “It would have been an injustice if we had started with a negative result.”

Notoriously angry, González let the idea of ​​a plot to harm his team float in the air. “The Union will fight to the end, against everything and anyone. This is my footprint. Besides being called a smoker and whatnot, my team is moving forward. “Today he proved it once again here,” said the Santa Fe team driver, who will finish this 12th round outside the qualifying positions for the next phase of the competition.