Duván Vergara asked Gustavo Costas to come on after Juanfer Quintero's goal | OneFootball

Duván Vergara spoke on SportsCenter after Racing's epic qualification over River in the round of 16 of the Torneo Clausura 2025 and revealed the sequence in which he asked Gustavo Costas to let him in after Juanfer Quintero's goal.

The Academy started winning very early in the match with a goal by Solari, who scored the 1-0 with a header at 4′, unleashing madness in the Cilindro.

During the second half, Gallardo made changes from the bench and found what he was looking for: Subiabre and Juanfer Quintero, two of the substitutes, scored to turn the game around and complicate Racing.

Like Muñeco, Gustavo Costas decided to refresh his team and also hit the mark: Toto Fernández came in (he shot for the deflection on Martínez Quarta) and Duván Vergara, who was involved in the action for the equalizer.

Indeed, the Colombian spoke in the mixed zone with SportsCenter and confessed that Costas had not planned to put him in, but it was he himself who asked to enter after he got "goosebumps" from Juanfer's goal, his compatriot.

«Juanfer scores, a great goal, and I don't know, it's like I get goosebumps, like fire... I'm not like that. It must be the anointing of God, I don't know, but I put on the jersey, the shin guards and told him ‘Gustavo, put me in, I'm going in’. He didn't call me and I told him ‘I'm going in’, and he looks at me like that and I told him I was going in. I changed and they told me that the one who writes down the notes didn't understand, because they hadn't been told anything. I told him ‘I'm going in’ and I went in... and it went well for me. Glory to God... I don't know what happened at the moment: I felt like doing it and I did it«, he recounted.

Additionally, the former América Colombian showed optimism for what's to come: «This team is always ready to fight for big things, we showed it in the Copa Argentina, where we were eliminated by River, in the Copa Libertadores, where we reached the semifinals, and we always compete and fight. We are ready for big things. We have one life left and we are going to defend it to the death«.

Racing qualified for the quarter-finals and now awaits an opponent: it will be Lanús or Tigre, a duel that will take place on Wednesday, November 26 at La Fortaleza.

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