05/16/2021 22:10
Clarín.com
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Boca Juniors
Updated 05/16/2021 10:10 PM
In the middle of the Superclásico penalty shootout, Edwin Cardona made a bad decision that put the definition on hold. When he parked in front of the ball, he waited for goalkeeper Alan Leonardo Díaz to move and threw in a Vaseline. The 21-year-old boy who made his debut in River's goal recovered and managed to cover the auction. What did Juan Román Riquelme think of the Colombian's decision? "These are situations that happen to those who are crazy. For me, Cardona is a football genius who does things that come out for himself. Taking a free kick under the barrier or kicking a free kick at our house in front of Newell's without race and nailing it in the angle ... they are those geniuses who light up and when those things come out we want to hug them ".
"CARDONA IS A FOOTBALL GENIUS, FEW DARE TO DO WHAT HE DID" 🗣
Juan Román Riquelme's reflection on TNT Sports on the penalty that Edwin Cardona missed ⚠ pic.twitter.com/4qPmOmsZWD
- TNT Sports Argentina (@TNTSportsAR) May 16, 2021
Then the journalist Hernán Castillo asked him if "a little bitch" had escaped him: "Those things come out very little because first of all you have to be encouraged to do that. If he had done it, we would say, my mother. Zinedine Zidane did it in the end of the world. If he hit the crossbar and left, we would have said, he's crazy. But he got in. We have to dare to do it in the Superclásico. And thank goodness we won because, poor thing, they were going to be killing him, "he said between Laughter.
However, the coach of the team, Miguel Angel Russo, did not give such an optimistic view of the Colombian's penalty and assured that they should have a talk: "We will speak with Cardona during the week.
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Oh Edwin!
Cardona punched his penalty, but Leo Díaz retraced his steps and saved the Colombian's shot.
pic.twitter.com/23gA4JAozm
- TNT Sports Argentina (@TNTSportsAR) May 16, 2021
Riquelme also referred to the situation that
River
had to go through,
which was decimated with 15 casualties by Covid and made it clear that, from his point of view, this does not cloud the result
of the classic: "At one point we came from a situation (in the we were playing) more or less and we won five games in a row: there we had many important players who tested positive and these guys appeared who play really well. And the guys helped us a lot ...
today Boca deservedly won
.
Of the three games that We played with "those in front", Boca should have won in all of them
. The previous two have a very good goalkeeper, it is not luck, he saves the ones he has to save. And today they tie you without kicking the goal, "Roman closed.