River, the VAR and referee Tobar’s offside confession to players after the game, which generated more anger

The night was long. And in Núñez no one could fall asleep. Between the anguish over the elimination and the expropriation felt by the arbitration in the elimination with Vélez of the Copa Libertadores at the Monumental, Thursday morning was tough for River.

What caught our attention the most was what the referee did Roberto Tobar he told the players on the pitch. “It is doubtful,” the players assured in the locker room of what the Chilean referee told them on the pitch about Suárez’s alleged hand. And a footballer confirmed this situation Clarione.

Furthermore: before leaving the stadium, the Cordovan striker assured this newspaper that he had headed with the left parietal and had not felt he had hit him in the arm. He also thought they were reviewing the show for a possible advanced position at the beginning of the game.

Confirmation that Tobar never saw the hand came with the VAR’s audio broadcast. “It’s a goal, for me it’s a goal”, says the Chilean referee over and over again. But from the booth they insisted that there was a hand. Then he called the assistant Claudio Ríos, something that is allowed in the protocoland it is the line that finally ensures the same as the VAR: an alleged change of direction of the ball, caused by Suárez’s left forearm, which is not perceptible.