Diniz slams ref over Barros’ red, admits Flamengo outclassed Vasco | OneFootball

Vasco fans had an unfortunate night this Wednesday. Vasco was defeated by Flamengo 1-0 at Maracanã, in the Campeonato Carioca. The match was marked by the controversial sending off of Cauan Barros at the start of the second half. Coach Fernando Diniz slammed referee Bruno Arleu de Araújo for showing the red card. 

“For me, it’s a ridiculous, senseless sending off, I still can’t understand it. The guy (Pulgar) is passing by, I don’t know if Barros tried to give him a little tap. There’s nothing there, no excessive force, no risk of injuring the opposing player, nothing. Then they use a camera angle that freezes with Barros’s boot near the calf… There’s no force there at all,” said Diniz in the press conference after the derby. 

“The sending off really conditioned what could have been the second half. In the first half, Flamengo played better and, when the second half started, it looked like the game was going to be different. You’ll see that as the championships go on, the criteria won’t be the same. An incident like this won’t result in a sending off. With that kind of decisiveness from the referee, with that eagerness, it’s going to be very hard for it to happen again,” he criticized. 

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Fernando Diniz – Photo: Matheus Lima / Vasco

Flamengo superior

But, despite stating that Barros’s sending off was detrimental in the match, Fernando Diniz admitted Flamengo’s superiority in the derby. 

“Flamengo played better than us in the first half. We weren’t comfortable enough to play the way we needed to. Then, in the second half, with one player less, we could have had more courage to play the game that was necessary. We came back for the second half with a different attitude, with corrections, although it was only for five minutes (until Barros’s sending off),” Diniz analyzed. 

With the defeat, Vasco remains with four points in the Campeonato Carioca, in third place in Group A. The Cruzmaltino will be back on the field this Sunday, when they visit Boavista at 8:30 p.m. in the state championship. 

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