'Don't disrespect me': the tense cross between Gago and Pitana

09/13/2021 7:31 PM

• Clarín.com

• sports

Updated 09/13/2021 7:31 PM

The clash between Aldosivi and Godoy Cruz for the 11th round of the Professional Football League, which the Mendoza team won as a visitor by 4 to 1, ended with a very spicy cross between Fernando Gago, coach of the Mar del Plata team, and the referee Néstor Pitana and the linesmen of the match.

Once the game was over, the former Boca and Real Madrid player went to claim the referee's list for an advanced position in Godoy Cruz's third goal.

After a fairly calm exchange of opinions, Gago turned around and went to the locker room.

And at that moment,

Mariano Viale

, one of the attendees, said: "4 to 1 came out."

Surprised and outraged by the comment, the

Shark manager

turned around and threw a 

"How ?!"

.

And he went back to the judges to resume the discussion.

"How do you answer me like that?", The coach demanded of Pitana.

Then

Julio Fernández

, the other line, tried to calm him: "That's it. We can put up with you too much, Fer. We can put up with you too much."

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"Do not disrespect me", the response of Fernando Gago after the crossing with Néstor Pitana and his assistants.

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Pitana invited him to retire -

"Well, go ahead. Please"

- and added: "Make mea culpa too. Make self-criticism, did you see?"

Gago replied curtly: "I do. Always. Stay calm. Don't disrespect me, don't disrespect me."

And he left the court very hot.

Aldosivi, who had had a good start in the League, has already accumulated four consecutive defeats, and does not seem to lift his head.

The fall against Godoy Cruz was added to those suffered in the three previous dates against River (2-0), Lanús (3-2) and Huracán (2-0).

The Mar del Plata team thus marches 16 ° in the table with 13 units, ten less than the leader, Lanús.

After the meeting, Gago assured that the only way they will be able to get out of the well is by working.

"We have to think and keep working and insisting on what we want to do. The only way I have known since I was a child is that in football everything is achieved with work, with effort, with dedication, and we will continue in the same way," said the DT.

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After a locked first half, Godoy Cruz came out with everything to complement and beat Aldosivi 4-1 on goals from Ojeda, Lomónaco, Bullaude and Elías López.

Cauteruccio discounted a penalty for El Tiburon.

Review the goals of the match.

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Regarding the development of the match, he analyzed that "the players were in the game the first half", and that later there were "conceptual errors" that led to defeat.

It is precisely on these shortcomings that the tactician will focus the work in the coming days.

Although he assured that he will also focus on the psychological, to lift the spirits of his players after four consecutive falls.

Looking ahead to the next match with Vélez for the 12th date, "we must correct and work from the tactical point of view. And also from the psychological, because they are negative results. That is why I will talk to the players and we will see how to face that match," Gago closed . 

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