Duván Vergara asked Gustavo Costas to come on after Juanfer Quintero’s goal | OneFootball

Duván Vergara spoke on SportsCenter after Racing’s epic qualification over River in the round of 16 of the 2025 Clausura Tournament and revealed the moment when he asked Gustavo Costas to let him in after Juanfer Quintero’s goal.

La Academia started off winning very early in the match with a goal from Solari, who scored the 1-0 with a header at the 4th minute, sending the Cilindro into a frenzy.

During the second half, Gallardo made changes from the bench and found what he was looking for: Subiabre and Juanfer Quintero, two of the substitutes, scored to turn the game around and put Racing in trouble.

Just like Muñeco, Gustavo Costas decided to freshen up his team and also hit the mark: he brought on Toto Fernández (who took the shot that deflected off Martínez Quarta) and Duván Vergara, who was involved in the play that led to the equalizer.

In fact, the Colombian spoke in the mixed zone with SportsCenter and confessed that Costas hadn’t planned to put him in; instead, it was Vergara himself who asked to come on after getting “goosebumps” from the goal by Juanfer, his compatriot.

“Juanfer scores, an amazing goal, and I don’t know, I just get goosebumps, like a fire inside… I’m not usually like this. Maybe it’s God’s anointing, I don’t know, but I put on my jersey, my shin guards, and told him ‘Gustavo, put me in, I’m going in’. He hadn’t called me and I told him ‘I’m going in,’ and he just looked at me, and I told him I was going in. I changed and they told me that the guy who writes down the substitutions didn’t understand, because nobody had told him anything. I said ‘I’m going in’ and I went in… and it went well for me. Glory to God… I don’t know what happened in that moment: it just came from within and I did it,” he said.

Additionally, the former América player from Colombia showed optimism for what’s ahead: “This team is always ready to fight for big things, we showed it in the Copa Argentina, where we were knocked out by River, in the Copa Libertadores, where we reached the semifinals, and we always compete and fight. We’re ready for great things. We have one life left and we’re going to defend it to the death.”

Racing has qualified for the quarterfinals and now awaits their opponent: it will be Lanús or Tigre, a match that will take place on Wednesday, November 26 at La Fortaleza.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.