2024-01-10 23:17:58
Juniors and Las Palmas faced each other this Wednesday for the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Regional Amateur Tournament. Las Palmas qualified 0-0 because they had won 2-1 in the first leg, in which there was a fight between the players.
However, this time nothing happened between the players and it did happen between Juniors fans and the local team players at the end of the game.
Chronicle of a day that was calm, but
Juniors and Las Palmas finished the first half of the second leg for the quarterfinals of the Regional Amateur without goals. After the incidents in the first leg, it was to be expected that the players would have been left with resentment, so the match might have become rough. But it was not like that.
After “the bad image for national football,” as the poet coach Sebastián “Sapo” Montivero described the scandal, it seems that the coaches did their job and chatted with their team regarding their sporting attitude.
The first 45 minutes did not feature any scandalous kicks or roses of any kind, only a late arrival on the part of the 5th poet, at 20 minutes, but following that there were no other strong crosses.
The protagonists knew how to transform last Sunday’s embarrassing performance into a party that brings joy to Córdoba and national football. The first part was a real sports show.
In the second half the story began to change, mainly due to the circumstances of the game. The tie was of no use to Juniors, so anxiety began to take over the players’ minds, and even more so when the blues were waiting for time.
The kicks and strong crosses did not increase, beyond the fact that the referee showed the yellow card a couple of times (and a red card to a Montivero field assistant), but the tensions are felt in Lalo Lacasia.
The Poets mightn’t settle for 0-0, because it left them out. While Las Palmas, understanding their advantage, did everything possible to put the game to sleep.
And that happened: Las Palmas held on to the 0-0 draw and qualified for the semifinals.
The match ended, it was a 0-0 draw. This benefited Las Palmas, who moved from the round to the semi-final of the tournament.
The unusual thing was that the poet fans entered the field to ask the players for their shirts, who did not accept the request.
This caused the tense atmosphere of the party to transform into hatred and contempt. So much so that the Juniors players themselves clashed, with fists, with their fans.
González and Rodríguez were the ones who clashed the most with the fans.
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