He duel between Chacarita and Tiger by Argentine Cup was marred when, with the match 1-0 in favor of Matador, the player from Undertaker Fernando Brandán received a bottle from the stands just one minute after Brahian Alemán’s goal. Given this, the player had to be removed from the playing field and could not continue playing, something that caused the match to be suspended.
The scandalous episode began six minutes into the complement, just after the goal that put Néstor Gorosito’s team ahead on the scoreboard. At that moment, the referee Ariel Penel expelled the captain of the team for a double warning Bullfighter, Agustín Cardozo.
While the Tigre players rebuked the referee, A bottle flew from the audience and hit Brandán squarely in the face, who seconds before had also received another projectile, in the back.
The impact on the player’s face made him falls to the ground and requires medical assistance. Given this -and seeing that the Tigre fan sector did not calm down-, the medical team of the Undertaker He decided remove Brandán from the playing field. The referee stopped the action while both teams asked him whether the game continued or not.
The uncertainty was such that, at one point, The president of Chacarita, Néstor Di Pierro, entered the playing fieldto indicate to the referee that Brandán had a cut on his face and that he would not be able to continue the game. Given this, Penel asked him a medical certificate to later submit as part of the report.
More than fifteen minutes passed from the attack until Penel, after speaking with the doctors of both teams, indicated that the match was not going to continue. Meanwhile, Aprevide confirmed that The person responsible for the bottle crash had been identified and arrestedbut the damage was done and the meeting for the Argentine Cup was suspended.
The harsh sanction that Tigre will apply to the fan accused of attacking Fernando Brandán
Tiger issued a statement in which it reported the sanction that the fan who was apprehended will receive, as indicated by the Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sports (APreViDe). The Victoria club determined a very harsh and exemplary measure with Axel Iván Genes, accused hitting the steering wheel with a water bottle.
“Club Atlético Tigre expresses its strong repudiation of the behavior of those members who, with their actions, motivated the suspension of the match with Chacarita Jrs.”, began the writing published by the Matador on their social networks.
«Likewise, we inform all members that the club will take the necessary measures andwill be punished with expulsion and lifetime ban from entering the stadium for those who threw projectiles onto the field of playattacking what should have been a sporting spectacle,” he concluded.