"
I spoke to the players before the game. I told them that we were playing against 14. We knew it.
It's like a jet telling you that it's going to rob you and going and robbing you
."
An unleashed
Carlos Tevez
was the one seen at a press conference after the controversial tie between Independiente and Barracas Central.
The culprit under the perception of Apache and his team was clear: referee
Pablo Dóvalo
.
It would be simultaneous with the accusations when a curious statistic came to light:
Guapo is the club that Dóvalo directed the most times in his career
.
A total of
24 opportunities
are those that the 47-year-old referee had to dispense justice in a Barracas Central match
.
This is a much lower number than Lanús, the second team he refereed the most times, with 15 occasions.
However, a detail to consider is that Dóvalo's paths with the team chaired by
Matías Tapia
crossed during promotion, a category in which he was also involved in some controversies in favor of Barracas.
Within those two dozen matches in which they saw each other,
Guapo won 11, tied 10 and lost only three games
.
A new feature that stands out is that during the 2021/22 season Dóvalo was appointed to lead
Guapo
seven times in the same campaign.
In them he achieved four wins and three draws.
Neither Pablo Dóvalo nor the VAR fired Domínguez after kicking Iván Marcone.
“It's not red,” the referee tells him.
A shame.
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Furthermore, another detail that was brought to light is that
Barracas is the team that Dóvalo awarded a penalty the most times, with a total of five
.
Who was also in the eye of the storm due to the controversies is
Luis
Lobo
Medina
, who was in charge of the VAR during the match against Independiente.
And the couple designated for the match is also strengthened by being in charge of a Guapo match.
The thing is that in the controversial match in which Barracas beat Sarmiento 5-3 due to a dubious disallowed goal against Verde, the refereeing duo is the same one that Independiente complained about this Tuesday.
Referee Pablo Dóvalo, from error to provocation: he insulted a player, crossed a journalist and is he suing Tevez?
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The main judge of the match spoke: "That's why I got yellow."
The tie between Barracas Central and Independiente was marked by controversies everywhere.
And the one who was left in the eye of the storm because of his decisions was the referee Pablo Dóvalo, which aroused the staunch annoyance of the entire Rojo team and Carlos Tevez who exploded on social networks.
But the referee's actions
once again gave something to talk about after 90 minutes
: he exploded in fury when he crossed a player when he complained to him once the match was over, he expelled a Red footballer and even attacked a journalist who tried to make him a question.
After Alexis Domínguez's attack on
Iván Marcone
that deserved a red card, plus two dubious plays in the Barracas area in which all Independiente claimed a penalty,
Dóvalo lived the consequences of the reproaches of the Rojo players
.
The first one the referee had to confront was Marcone through a strong discussion in the middle of the field as soon as the match ended.
But Dóvalo did not mince his words and began to make decisions without a filter.
"
You are expelled, you are expelled
," he told the midfielder after his protests.
However, the worst part would come from
Joaquín Laso
.
The defender was one of the players who was most outraged by the refereeing of Dóvalo, who at that time was already showing signs of not having patience.
And he made it clear.
"
The bol*** is you, you are the same bol*** as always. I have known you since Italiano, I have known you for 20 years, Laso
," the judge sentenced the central defender after receiving insults from him.
The situation reached such a high temperature that Laso had to be separated from him by his own teammates so that nothing would escalate.
On Marcone's side, when he was notified of his expulsion and left the locker room to leave the stadium with the squad, he did not hesitate to attack the referee's performance again.
"
We knew this was going to happen, the club should have acted sooner
," he outlined.
Laso, very upset, went to rebuke Dóvalo after the end of the match and the referee did not remain silent.
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His teammate Laso did not keep quiet either after the short circuit experienced on the field of play.
Despite the passing of the hours, the crossfire between the protagonists does not stop and the central defender came out again through his social networks.
"They took him away under escort? I thought they arrested him," he wrote in an Instagram story.
The event the defender refers to is when Dóvalo left the stadium surrounded by journalists.
The thing is that when the
referee-player
embarrassment was still on the surface, on Tuesday night another episode awaited the referee:
he had to deal with the journalists who were waiting for his word at the exit of the stadium, with whom he experienced a new altercation.
The story of Laso before his crossing with Dóvalo.
Photo: Instagram.
A small group of press soon followed with their microphones the exit that Dóvalo made accompanied by members of the City police.
However, at first everything seemed like it would be expressed in a few simple statements in response to the questions they asked him.
"
I didn't see anything
," was one of the judge's first sentences about the foul against Marcone that could have ended in a red.
But the climate gradually rose when the queries became pertinent.
"
Can you let me walk, please? Do you understand or don't you understand what I'm saying? Did I go see the screen?
" he asked rhetorically, showing signs of exhaustion.
Regarding Tevez's statements against him, Dóvalo said: "
I don't know what the anger is, I don't know who is angry, I have no idea. It's his opinion, I couldn't hear it. Tevez can say whatever he wants. I'm used to it. , it's very easy to talk, talking is free
."
Insatiable in his arrogance, Pablo Dóvalo also asked that journalist Lucas González Diez (@Lugonzalezdiezz) be removed while he was speaking to the press after the Barracas - Independiente match.
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However, Dóvalo's patience ran out again when a journalist crossed his path to ask him one last question.
Faced with the situation, the referee stopped, looked at him intently and alerted security: "
Can you take this boy away from me?
"
"
Can't you ask?
" the chronicler replied.
"
No
," Dóvalo answered without thinking.
Under these conditions, the referee was surrounded by security members and put an end to a night that had everything but that seems to continue during Wednesday's day.
There is a rumor that Dóvalo would not let the statements against him pass and
would be analyzing going to Court
, supported by the Argentine Association of Referees, in order to denounce Tevez and Marcone.
It seems to be the beginning of a long novel.