Video: Ovation for Gallardo, deafening boos for River players | OneFootball

Standing ovation for Gallardo and boos for the players: this is how the Monumental experienced Muñeco’s last day In his last match against Banfield, with a 3-1 victory, the fans surrendered to the most successful coach in the club’s history, but expressed their discontent with whistles and insults towards many of the players for their poor performance.

Watch and listen to the boos directed at River’s players during Marcelo Gallardo’s farewell:

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As soon as the players came out to do their warm-up exercises, the fans already present at the Monumental expressed their discontent. “Let’s see if the players and the crowd can understand each other…”, “At River Plate you have to win and not think about which club to go dancing at…” and “Put in more effort, put in more heart…” were the two songs that were chanted.

Afterwards, the stadium announcer read out River’s starting eleven and substitutes. Except for the youngsters (Santiago Beltrán, Facundo González, Ian Subiabre, and Joaquín Freitas), all the players were booed. Some of them less so, like Gonzalo Montiel or Tomás Galván, and others much more, such as Sebastián Driussi, Paulo Díaz, Marcos Acuña, Kevin Castaño, Matías Viña, Facundo Colidio, and Maximiliano Salas (the most booed).

To the chant of: “Muñeco, Muñeco…”, Gallardo, on the other hand, received a thunderous ovation from the more than 80,000 spectators present at the Monumental. The same happened after Lucas Martínez Quarta’s goal, which opened the scoring in the 13th minute.

And the ending? “Muñeco, Muñeco, Muñeco…”, was the unified shout from all the stands, immediately followed by the chant asking him to stay: “Gallardo belongs to River, he’s not leaving River.” The coach left first, greeting the fans, in a display of mutual love that will last forever. The players followed him into the tunnel seconds later, once again booed.

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