Unión – Racing: Mauro Luna Diale’s night of fury in a disallowed goal and a red card in a span of just seven minutes

The first game of the eighth date of the Professional League He had a start that will surely leave a lot to talk about during the rest of the week. What seemed to be a meeting that was not going to leave too many emotions between Union y Racing in Santa Fe now has the potential to be one of the most controversial of the weekend, thanks to two plays in particular that featured the Tatengue striker Mauro Dial Managerwhose match lasted just 37 minutes. The former striker who emerged from the Boca youth squad went from celebrating the possible 1-1 against the Academy to being sent off in just 7 minutes.

The Academy had the best start, reaching the first goal of the game after 25 minutes thanks to a good play by Gabriel Hauche on the left that Maxi Romero defined with a header, but the locals quickly tried to find an equalizer, and believed they had found it at the second. 29 minutes into the game, when Dial Manager led a fast counterattack with Imanol Machuca, played a wall and beat Gabriel Arias to define with the free arc. However, Jonathan García managed to clear that shot, but from where Nicolás Ramírez was standing he observed that the ball had crossed the entire line and scored a goal for Unión.

Galván’s save on Luna Diale, reviewed by VAR

However, the VAR informed Ramírez that it was not certain that the ball had entered in its entirety, for which he was called to observe the play from other angles. Finally, it was determined that Galván’s save came before he completely crossed, and in the face of the fury of the Santa Fe players, the goal did not go up on the scoreboard.

But there would still be another decisive action for Luna Diale’s match. Just three minutes after the game resumed, the former Boca entered with great intensity while he was playing a ball with Gabriel Rojas on the right corner, and although all of Racing requested the expulsion, the referee chose only to admonish the striker. Nevertheless, The VAR intervened again to warn that Rojas had received an iron on his ankle, reason enough for that warning to be withdrawn and Luna Diale sees the direct red card. In a burst of seven minutes he went from believing he gave his team the lead to leaving him with 10 players.

Luna Diale’s plate that led to his expulsion

In the second half, Unión would later manage to find the tie, via a rebound from a free kick that he took advantage of. Yeison Gordillo with the complicity of Arias, but the course of the game would be much more difficult for the team of Gustavo Munua, as the game progressed. The VAR would punish the local for the third time when Lucas Esquivel down to matias rojas in the area at 26, and through technology the penalty was validated, which the victim of the foul herself emphatically converted. and about the end Facundo Mura took advantage of the spaces that Tatengue left when looking for the tie to leave only in front of the goal Paul Guerrerowhat He did not fail in the one-on-one with Santiago Mele and converted his first goal in the championship, to seal the 3-1 final at the stadium on April 15.

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