Two certainties remained on the night of Asunción. On the one hand, Argentina He did not exhibit firmness to defend or creativity to attack. After all, he played one of the worst games of the ‘Scaloni Era’. For some reason all the world champions seemed very beaten after the defeat… On the other hand, there was a disputed arbitration by the always ‘accommodating’ Brazilian Anderson Daroncowho chose not to send off in the first half (with the result 1-1) the Paraguayan Omar Alderete, the man who precisely at the beginning of the second half scored the goal of the Albirroja victory…
Argentina, on the field, exploded against Daronco. The two Lionels, Messi and Scaloni, chose the same word to reproach the Brazilian judge. The coach shouted “cheeky” at Daronco from the substitutes’ bench when he did not send off Alderete after his second infraction against Leo. And at the end of the first half, before going to the locker room, it was number 10 who stood face to face with the referee and also told him clearly: “Damn.”
Of course, after the game, Messi chose not to speak, something that did not happen many games ago. The only player who expressed himself was Rodrigo De Paul, who avoided controversy: “That’s what the referee interpreted and it’s fine.”
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Meanwhile, at a press conference, Scaloni opted for a speech absolutely opposite to his reaction in the field: “I could say a lot of things… But it doesn’t make sense because it would seem like it’s an excuse. I prefer not to say it precisely so that it doesn’t seem like an excuse. excuse. We all saw what happened on the field, but that has nothing to do with the result.”
