Platense-Godoy Cruz heated up: Velázquez elbowed him and earned the red card but “got one” in the locker room

Platense and Godoy Cruz close the twelfth date of the Professional League Cup in Vicente López. In an interesting match, they drew 1-1, with goals from Hernán López Muñoz and Mateo Pellegrino. They didn’t allow themselves any respite, but 32 minutes into the first half the weather got hot on the pitch.

In a play in the middle of the field, the defender Ignacio Vázquez elbowed Thomas Galdames and referee Sebastián Zunino, well positioned, immediately gave him the red card. However, the squid player, angry at the decision, was slow to leave the playing field. He asked for the action to be reviewed by VAR, which had already been done and which had ratified Zunino’s decision.

From the moment they got the red card, It took Vázquez six minutes to leave the pitch, accompanied by several colleagues who managed to convince him. However, when he went to the locker room, he saw that the visiting substitutes’ bench was laughing and immediately scolded goalkeeper Roberto Ramírez, who stood up and started arguing with him. Vázquez went haywire and the fight was prevented by a member of campus security and also by a police officer.

Faced with the request of the Platense players, Zunino, with the red card in hand, approached Godoy Cruz’s bench and also sent off the reserve goalkeeper. “I saw you,” the referee told the player. So 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 problems in the second phase.