Christian Cuevahalf with passages through São Paulo and Santosused social media to criticize the refereeing after Cusco’s 2-0 defeat to Flamengoin the debut of Group A of Libertadores.
Currently playing at Juan Pablo II College, in Peru, the player blasted Paraguayan Derlis López, calling him “son of a thief”.
Controversial bids
The referee’s intervention generated questions at two different moments of the match. In the first, Gonzalo Plata hit an opponent’s ankle in a tackle. Despite reviewing the move, the refereeing team, with support from VAR, chose not to apply the expulsion.
The second episode occurred when the score was still 1-0 for . Cusco found the net with Ruidíaz, but the goal ended up being invalidated after a prolonged VAR check, which identified a minimal offside from Manzaneda at the start of the play.
The newspaper ASfrom Spain, , and added that “Cusco was the one who suffered the consequences”.
