The brutal kick to Zeballos that caused a little seen gesture: the referee repented despite the absence of the VAR and expelled the Agropecuario player

Violence, tears and a gesture that is rarely seen in football. The beginning of the presentation of the Boca first Agricultural of Carlos Casares in Salta for the round of 16 of the Argentine Cup was controversial. The protagonists? Exequiel Zeballos, Milton Leyendeker and the referee Maximiliano Ramírez.

Seven minutes into the first half, the ape tried to overwhelm the left wing, overtook a first rival but when Leyendeker’s cover came he received a brutal football on the right leg, the supporting leg.

The discussions between the players began immediately, the referee immediately threw the yellow card in the air for one of the defenders of the Buenos Aires team and the controversy ensued. What happened? Ramírez repented, despite the absence of the VAR, and at the suggestion of his assistant judges, he changed the red card for Leyendeker.

All the players of the Agropecuario have turned to the referee to protest against the change of decision, beyond the fact that it is regulatory because it can be modified until the resumption of the game.

Zeballos, for his part, had to leave the playing field in pain, with tears in his eyes and, once on the bench – he was replaced by Sebastián Villa -, Xeneize’s doctors put ice on his right ankle and a boot. to try to immobilize the area, pending studies.