The great Arsenal-Boca controversy: why Marcelo Weigandt was sent off badly

A Boca Juniors it had cost him a lot the first half before Arsenal and went to the showers at a disadvantage due to the goal of Joaquin Pombo. And the start of the second half placed an extra obstacle: the expulsion of Marcelo Weigandtwhich represented the great controversy of the match in Sarandí on date 19 of the Professional League.

It was barely three minutes into the plugin when Luis Advíncula sought to enable Marcelo Weigandt, who projected himself and stepped on the area. However, when seeking to control the ball at waist level, he found himself with the aforementioned Pombo, who bet to reject with his head, and in the effort to recover he received the rubbing of the plugs on the head. Consequently, he fell to the grass and the scene was made more impressive because he began to bleed.

While they were treating him on the floor, the referee Leandro Rey Hilder received the call from the VAR, in charge of Hernan Mastrangelo. And, after repeatedly watching the action and hesitating, he decided to return to the pitch to show the full-back the red card, amid widespread protests, which included coach Jorge Almirón.

Now, was the head judge’s sanction correct? No. The equation is simple: who searched for the contact? The Boca player is the one who receives the ball and the Arsenal player is the one who assumes the risk of contesting it by bending over to head, putting his physique at risk. In conclusion, the one who generates the contact is the local footballer. That is why Weigandt was badly expelled.

In this case, Mastrángelo should not even have called to review, because there was not even a fault. After, Rey Hilfer “let himself be convinced” because slow motion distorts reality.

The game had already given Boca bad news in the first half, but not related to the arbitration aspect: at minute 27 he lost Nicolás Figal due to muscle discomfort, and the coach had to burn a change to bring in Nicolás Valentini . And the red to Weigandt proposed a new challenge in a match in which he did not exhibit security or fluidity in his game. There is no doubt that it was a human-technology failure.

She was not the only one. In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Rey Hilfer penalized a hand on the edge of the area in a clean rejection of Centurión’s head after a cross from Fabra…

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