Roberto Leto's desperate plea: Paredes gets fifth yellow for River | OneFootball

Boca’s captain, who faced Talleres with very little rest after starting for Argentina vs. Zambia, played half an hour and got booked at the end for protesting to the assistant referee; he will serve the suspension against Independiente and will play 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 started on the bench against La T and came on to play the last half hour. Time passed and it seemed he would not get a yellow card that would banish the ghost of not being able to be there against River, but his savvy won out. Almost in stoppage time, he angrily appealed a local offside to the assistant referee—it wasn’t—and Nazareno Arasa showed him his fifth booking, 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 the curious thing about all this is that at the start of the Talleres-Boca broadcast on Radio Splendid, the commentator from “Show,” the iconic program in which Roberto Leto takes part, desperately asked Paredes to get himself booked so he could go into the Superclásico against River free of yellow-card accumulation.

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

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