Why Falcón Pérez allowed Merentiel’s goal in Boca v Unión draw | OneFootball

The Uruguayan leveled the game in Santa Fe, but the Tatengue players protested a foul at the start of the play.

Unión and Boca drew in Santa Fe, as part of matchday 11 of the Torneo Apertura, but beyond the final result, there were several complaints against referee Yael Falcón Pérez after Miguel Merentiel’s goal, which sealed Boca’s equalizer.

In midfield, as the play began, Lautaro Blanco contested the ball with Julián Palacios, who ended up being knocked down. The play continued and led to a cross that Adam Bareiro nearly converted into a goal. However, it was Merentiel who appeared on the rebound.

Because the ball hit the net, the Tatengue players complained to Falcón Pérez. And after several hours of controversy, journalist Germán García Grova was able to speak with the refereeing team, who confirmed that for Palacios, “the initial shirt pull neither made him fall nor destabilized him”. They added: “Afterwards, he lets himself fall.”

Regarding the play, they maintain that “not even the Unión players protested at the time”, and they also explained why they didn’t review the play with VAR and what they saw from the booth: “That there was a shirt pull but it didn’t make him fall. And that afterwards he throws himself backwards.”

Julián Palacios spoke about the foul

After the match, Julián Palacios himself spoke with ESPN F1, where he expressed his frustration over his team’s draw. He also called for a foul by Lautaro Blanco on him in the play that led to Merentiel’s goal, which made it 1-1 in Santa Fe.

“I’ll watch it now, what I feel is that he grabs me and pulls me back, and that’s why I couldn’t get to poke the ball away. We’ll have to watch and analyze it, and then everyone has to correct their own mistakes,” were the midfielder’s words as he protested the foul.

The truth is that, beyond this request and the frustration of the Unión players on the field, the match referee, Yael Falcón Pérez, did not see the same thing as Palacios.

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