After the Superclásico row, River will ask AFA to drop Paletta | OneFootball

River’s leadership will submit a request to the Argentine Football Association asking that Héctor Paletta, the VAR referee in the latest Superclásico, no longer officiate their matches. The club believes they were harmed by the official in the final play of the game, since he did not call Darío Herrera over to review a shove by Lautaro Blanco on Lucas Martínez Quarta.

The final minute of the match was the most controversial moment of a Superclásico that, up to that point, had been calm in that regard. Darío Herrera believed that Blanco’s off-the-ball shove on Martínez Quarta was not forceful enough to knock him down and that it was River’s captain himself who exaggerated the action in search of a penalty that would have given them a chance to equalize.

Héctor Paletta, in Ezeiza, upheld the on-field referee’s decision and did not call him over to review the play. Once the match ended, several Millonario players went to protest to the official. Martínez Quarta, the player involved in the incident, told him: “He doesn’t let me play the ball, it’s a penalty. I’m surprised by you, especially since you’re going to the World Cup.”

Later, in the mixed zone, he explained the play to TyC Sports microphones: “Blanco has no intention of playing the ball. He goes straight into me and I’ve got my back to him. I can’t go after it. Everyone saw it. VAR should have called him over. I don’t know whether the comments from this week, when people came out and spoke, may have influenced something. I want to believe in good faith and that it wasn’t like that. I respect Herrera, and mistakes are human.”

According to what this outlet was able to learn in recent hours, Fernando Rapallini, Technical Refereeing Manager and former Argentine football referee, believed that Héctor Paletta acted correctly from VAR, since he had no more tools available than Herrera did on the field. In his view, that assessment by the referee is supported by the footage that has been replayed since the end of the Superclásico.

At the same time, Federico Beligoy, Secretary of the Argentine Referees Association and the person in charge of appointments, went even further and congratulated Herrera on his performance. The National Director of Refereeing rated the Superclásico referee’s performance at “8 or 9 out of 10.”

At River, the anger continues and, after submitting the request to the AFA, they are awaiting a response that will be given in the coming hours.

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