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Chile coach condemns Messi red card

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7 years ago

July 10, 2019

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Colombian coach Reinaldo Rueda, Chile coach, criticized the lack of “temper” by Paraguayan referee Mario Díaz de Vivar for expelling Leo Messi and Gary Medel and said, after the 2-1 defeat against Argentina for the bronze of the Cup America, that the Red “lost mental control, National Daily learnt.

“That the best player in the world is expelled, I think it’s a sad situation,” Rueda told a news conference at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo after the game. “It is a pity that it happens, that for a situation that could be handled in another way, the two complete sets do not remain,” he added.

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The 10 was expelled along with the Chilean central Gary Medel in the minute 37 after a brawl between both that the referee punished with direct red. For Rueda, the brawl between them was a “normal situation, of dispute, of mourning”, which deserved a yellow card for each one.

“I have great respect for the referees, but it is a matter of management, a good arbitration is highlighted by finishing with 22 on the court, it was a matter of handling, knowing that those first minutes have been like this in several games of this Copa América “he commented.

“The balance, the mental control played a trick on us again,” he added, alluding to the mistakes made in the semi-final, in which they lost 0-3 to Peru.

However, he considered that the Red began “very well” the game, but that they fell from a “naivety”

“Chile committed a sin and it was deluding us all for the football that it exhibited, for the instance it came in. It made us dream of a final,” he added.