Former Colón keeper Facundo Masuero at odds with Chicago captain | OneFootball

Nueva Chicago is going through a very fragile moment. What at the start of the season looked like a bed of roses has now changed drastically, and the outlook has turned bleak. What seemed like it could be a season to achieve the long-awaited promotion could now fall apart because of internal problems. The arrival of Luis García gave a facelift to a squad that had fallen short the previous year.

And that harmony lasted until matchday eight, when El Torito roared in Villa Crespo and claimed a huge win over Atlanta. Four matches have passed since then. Chicago has not won a single game (drawing three and losing the other), and everything blew up in the defeat in Paraná against Patronato: Facundo Masuero and Emiliano Méndez got into a fistfight in the dressing room at halftime.

The problem, as Olé was able to learn, originated on the pitch. Things that happened during the game ended in the worst possible way. Allegedly, the goalkeeper reproached the midfielder over a situation, and the experienced player did not like it at all… The No. 5 ran into the dressing room when the referee blew for halftime, a confrontation started in the tunnel and, when they got to change, they came to blows.

The team came out for the second half after this incident. Even though they managed to pull one back from the 2-0 they trailed by at the break, it was not enough and they ended up losing. The situation is not worrying because of the standings, since Luis García’s side is fifth. But the dressing room is completely divided. Emiliano Méndez, one of the squad’s symbols and leaders, has a good number of players backing him. The board should grab El Torito by the horns so the situation does not escalate to an even more complex level.

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