Who does not cry … the Boca players protested against the penalty and Santiagoni denounced the goal after the rebound. Photo Marcelo Carroll
In every game, on every date, a custom had already been made for the application of the VAR. But this does not always leave room for controversy, due to its application in fast plays that in other times were imperceptible to the gaze of the referee and assistants, or due to the margin of interpretation that some leave.
In the first half, this last situation occurred. There was a Marcos Rojo touch on Juan Cruz Kaprof. And the question: was he a criminal or not? Referee Pablo Echevarría didn’t need to go see the show, from the control center examined the situation and indicated that it was not a fault. It is true that there was a small touch, but it did not become an infringement.
Before VAR’s intervention for the second time, there was an action claimed by Carlos Izquierdoz for an alleged foul in the game before González Metilli’s goal which, of course, did not happen.
Conversely, an imperceptible play allowed Central Córdoba to have a penalty in favor in the second half and when they were already leading 1-0 Chino Weigandt touched the support foot of González Metilli. At that time, Echevarría did not sanction. Worse from the VAR they told him to go and review the game. After seeing the slow motion and slow motion action. And then, he pointed to the disk. It was the Uruguayan Renzo López but he found a specialist to stop them from twelve steps: Agustín Rossi, who rebounded and transformed Jesús Soraire. As Echevarría pointed to the center of the playing field, there was a call from the VAR: invasion of the field. And so it was, the Central Córdoba player invaded the medialuna and took advantage of that position. That is why the appeal was directly annulled.
The one who continues to surprise with his ability to stop penalties is Agustín Rossi. The goalkeeper has already stopped five of the nine penalties taken in regulation time. Furthermore, by adding the definitions of penalties, 12 saves out of 42 executions are added.
The previous four penalties in 90 minutes have been against Junior in 2018 (to Luis Ruiz), against Independiente in the Maradona Cup 2020 (to Andrés Roa), against Rosario Central in the 2022 League Cup (to Emiliano Vecchio) and against Estudiantes in the same tournament (against Leandro Díaz). In other words, Rossi saved the last three penalties he was given. The last player who managed to defeat the Boca goalkeeper in a match was Luis Miguel Rodríguez, with Gimnasia on 30/10/2021.
Source: Clarin
