Nadir Ghazal stated that, before the Superclásico, Boca fans had started a campaign to present River as benefiting from refereeing in Córdoba and Boca as harmed by VAR reviews and disallowed goals. He claimed that a similar strategy had been used before the match played that year at the Monumental: as he wrote, Juan Román Riquelme had questioned the refereeing and, later, Leandro Paredes had led a group of players who spoke with the press after a training session to apply pressure. Ghazal said that this had affected the referee, who did not call a penalty for Blanco on Martínez Quarta in the last play. He also requested that River’s leaders speak to the media after the match against Racing. He added that River would visit a stadium where, according to him, they had not been awarded a penalty in the last 24. #Superclásico #Boca #River (translated)

