Roberto Leto's desperate plea, Paredes to get a fifth yellow vs River | OneFootball

Boca’s captain, who faced Talleres with very little rest after starting for Argentina vs. Zambia, played half an hour and got himself booked at the end for protesting to the linesman; he will serve his suspension against Independiente and will be available against River. “We thought about it a lot and it turned out this way,” was his ambiguous reflection.

With very little rest after starting for the Argentina national team against Zambia and playing 53 minutes, the midfielder began on the bench against Talleres and came on to play the final half hour. Time was running out and it seemed he would not manage to get the yellow card that would banish the fear of missing River, but experience won out. Almost in stoppage time, he angrily appealed a local offside to the linesman — it wasn’t — and Nazareno Arasa showed him his fifth yellow card, so he will rest against El Rojo in between the first two Copa matches.

“He appealed for offside with shouts and arm gestures,” was specifically the reason — forced by the player himself to “clear himself” ahead of the Superclásico — according to the referee’s report.

But what is curious about all this is that at the start of the Talleres-Boca broadcast on Radio Splendid, the commentator on “Show,” the iconic program in which Roberto Leto takes part, desperately asked Paredes to get booked so he would arrive at the Superclásico against River with a clean slate of yellow cards.

Leto’s plea to Paredes: Hopefully Úbeda’s system of rotating an entire defense works out, and also of keeping the best player in the championship on the bench for a bit so Paredes can play in the second half. Ah, I almost forgot! If Paredes is going to come on, please let him get booked, I don’t want to watch a Boca-River without Paredes, okay? I’m saying it now while there’s still time and while he still isn’t going to come on, but when he does come on, let him not forget the yellow card, please, I’m asking you, Leandro.

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