01/05/2021 10:44 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 01/05/2021 10:44 PM
The feeling was that of what is known as
deja vu
.
Just three days later, Robert Rojas lived the same nightmare and River paid dearly for it: the Paraguayan defender allowed himself to win with his body in the first leg semifinal and Palmeiras gave Marcelo Gallardo's team a blow too hard with the second goal, that Luiz Adriano converted.
Last Saturday, it was Tevez who had first given him his body to win the space and take the pass to Sebastián Villa, who converted the tie.
And after the game came the energetic challenge of the coach.
As if he had known that a similar situation could occur.
A characteristic of Robert Rojas is to always look for the advance.
Here Luiz Adriano threw all the experience on him and made him pay dearly.
#Libertadores pic.twitter.com/RUr2GBhfUC
- Santiago Caruso (@Santiago_Caruso) January 6, 2021
The cameras captured after the Superclásico one of those strong statements that usually remain between the four walls of a changing room and River's coach was in evidence.
"Break his ankle!"
Gallardo had demanded of Robert Rojas after Tevez left him behind at the beginning of the play that led to the final 2-2 at La Bombonera.
The defensive inattention of #River in the second goal of #Boca:
☑️ #Rojas is behind #Tevez and is not able to reach it.
☑️ #Villa drags #Montiel.
The side turns and goes towards Tevez.
☑️ El Apaque plays at the interval of the defenders leaving the Colombian before #Armani.
pic.twitter.com/CmjOdoe0kj
- rob (@robaboian) January 3, 2021
The
Doll
gave the explanations of the case on Tuesday night, before the clash for the semifinal of the Copa Libertadores against Palmeiras.
“The one who talks too much about what I said to Robert Rojas is because he never played ball in his life or even caught it with his hand.
Anyone who understands a little about the game knows well what I was referring to, "said Gallardo before the journalistic question on the way to the locker room.
Beyond the fact that many took River's coach's statement as a natural matter within a playing field and that in reality it should not be interpreted literally, there were also those who took his sayings as dangerous and even an incitement to rough play.
“The one who talks too much about what I said to Robert Rojas is because he never played ball in his life or even caught it with his hand.
Anyone who understands a little of the game knows well what I was referring to ”.
Signature: Marcelo Gallardopic.twitter.com/OQEL4GiKjF
- Futbolero Attack (@AtaqueFutbolero) January 6, 2021
"You have to hide all the microphones. Football is becoming less private and everything that is spoken is known the next day, so many nonsense is spoken and the game is analyzed so little ... But hey, if it works for the show that serve for the show, "protested Gallardo, as if to try to close the incident.
