The Peruvian club issued a statement in which it also requests “the necessary sanctions from the refereeing team” which led the match at San Carlos de Apoquindo.
Sporting Cristal’s annoyance after the 2-1 defeat against Universidad Católica in San Carlos de Apoquindo is not only due to the result, but also to the way the Crusaders managed to score the second goal.
A controversial penalty put Fernando Zampedri in front of the ball and handed UC their first Copa Libertadores group stage victory.
On the Peruvian side, they know that the point they were able to save could be the key to defining the group and they quickly made a complaint to Conmebol in reference to the game.
Through a letter, the Lima club indicated that “Please serve this to express our resounding disagreement and our strongest protest for what happened tonight (yesterday) at the meeting in front of the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago ”.
“The arbitration in favor of our rival appeared in the last minutes of the match ratified with the clear images of the retransmission of the match, which means a great affectation to our club, considering that a penalty was sanctioned against us, after an obvious use of the hand of a player of the rival team”, they continue.
“In addition to raising our voice of protest, we hereby request that the corresponding measures be taken and that the necessary sanctions be given to the refereeing team that was responsible. “, they add.
“Measures, which unfortunately will not be able to return the transferred points to us, but which should lay the foundations for the future, because these situations must not happen again for the good of South American football “, they argue.
Finally, they ask “that all necessary efforts be made so that the use of VAR is finally implemented as soon as possible in competition, with the aim of reducing and/or eliminating the risk of making mistakes gross of the magnitude that have occurred today”, they close.
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