VIDEO River v Di María, ‘scrawny noodle’ and gripes after Central loss | OneFootball

The harassment of Ángel Di María began during the warm-up at the Monumental. When Jorge Almirón’s players took the field to do their pre-match exercises, the chant “Fideo neck dryer” started coming down from all four sides. A taunt alluding to his closeness with AFA president Claudio Tapia.

Later, when the stadium announcer was reading Rosario Central’s lineup, as expected, River fans started whistling, growing louder or softer depending on the name being mentioned. The one who got it the worst was clearly Di María.

And once the result and Canalla’s elimination were confirmed, Fideo spoke and said:

“They beat us by a penalty goal. We knew these kinds of things could happen here. It’s not for nothing that people were talking beforehand. We’ll keep working. I think we had a great tournament, and we’re proud of ourselves,” he said in an interview with TNT Sports.

Asked whether he was bothered by the comments from the River world beforehand, he replied: “No, calm. I think that... it’s football. These things happened before, but people didn’t talk about them. Now they do, so, well, nothing. I think football is like that; you have to keep thinking about what’s next and that’s it, congratulate them... Hopefully things go very well for them.”

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