The experienced judge was the one who wrongly indicated to his colleague Penel that he should cancel the Wolf's goal.. The referee Diego Abal was dismissed in the last of the arbitration body of the AFA directed by Federico Beligoy.

The episode exposes not only the poor present of Argentine refereeing but the internal crisis that exists among those who make up that sphere of this sport at a professional level. The arrival of VAR did nothing but feed suspicions and mistakes almost constantly, week after week.