All the controversies left by the Superclásico between Boca and River: the VAR audio, Riquelme's phrases and more

Soccer fans had a new chance to enjoy a Superclásico: River and Boca met again, in this case for the quarterfinals of the 2024 Professional League Cup, and “Xeneize” eliminated their classic rival by beating them 3 to 2, with a double from the figure Miguel Merentiel.

Miguel Borja had opened the scoring, Merentiel tied the game when the first stage ended, while in the second half Cavani made it 2 to 1 and Merentiel himself achieved his double to make it 3 to 1. On the hour, Paulo Díaz scored for the by Martín Demichelis, but it was not enough since the meeting was about to end.

Next, the controversies of the Superclásico that classified Boca to the semis and eliminated River.

The great controversy of the afternoon It happened six minutes into the second half, when Cristian Lema unintentionally pushed the ball towards his goal, goalkeeper “Chiquito” Romero made a great effort to get it out. but the referee Yael Falcón Pérez sanctioned River's goal, at the request of the linesman Juan Pablo Belatti.

However the VAR was in charge of reviewing it and after a few minutes annulled the goalso the match remained tied 1 to 1, and then Boca was able to define it to finish 3 to 2.

But so far no conclusive image has been released, and the VAR communication left the controversy even more heated.

As usual, Juan Román Riquelme, the greatest idol in the history of Boca and current president, chicaned River, with the following phrases:

“All week I heard that Demichelis was going for his third victory against Boca. But I never heard it said that Boca was going for his third elimination against River”

“Boca has done well in the last 2 classics against River. I left River's field happy. They clearly played on the counterattack in their stadium and today they did the same: they played on the counterattack.

They had Echeverri who plays very well, the 2 forwards and the other 7 from midfield back to defend. “They found the goal and then they started to defend.”

Martín Demichelis acknowledged in a press conference that he went to the referee's locker room, Yael Falcón Pérez, 'to apologize' in case there was any problem in the Superclásico between River and Boca. However, journalist Juan Cortese stated the following: “The information I have is that Demichelis did not go to apologize to the referee after the game, but quite the opposite.. I just don't know why she didn't say what really happened. On the other hand, the publicly shown VAR audios confirm the theory of damage in River.” Given this, the “Millonarios” fans are exploding as they accuse their coach of being a liar or, in any case, of being innocent if it happened. what he himself said at the conference, in addition to indirectly accusing his players. Anyway…

Although they would not have radically changed the development of the game, since the first two, from River, had “Millo” losing and at most it would have been even more difficult for them than it was, while Figal's, Due to the little time left, it would not have been of much use to Demichelis' team, Falcón Pérez could have expelled Miguel Borja and Facundo Colidio (River), and Nicolás Figal (Boca).