No one likes to lose. Some deal better with defeat and others explode in the worst way when defeated. On the Argentine afternoon of Tuesday, the Ajax He was eliminated in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Benfica in one of the series with the best football but with less expectations due to other more important matches such as the one between Atlético de Madrid and Manchester United that was played at the same time.
After drawing 2-2 in the first leg in Lisbon, the Ajax arrived at the Johan Cruyff Arena as a candidate to go through to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. With 15 minutes remaining, the Uruguayan Darwin Núñez scored the goal that gave Benfica the pass to the next phase. At the final whistle, one of the players in the Argentine national team who were in the game exploded against the referee.
While Nicolás Otamendi celebrated the victory and qualification with his teammates from Benfica, Lisandro Martinezcenter of Ajax and multifunctional Argentine national teamexploded in insults and claims against one of the assistants of the Spanish arbitration trio of the meeting and, in doing so, he badly disregarded his technical director, Erik Ten Haag.
As can be seen in the video, Martínez He was enraged by a comment made by one of the assistants who was accompanying Carlos Del Cerro, the match’s central referee. The former defender of Newell’s and Defense and Justice rebuked him while his coach and his teammates tried to separate him without success: “Tell me back out there,” the Argentine national team player is heard saying while pointing to the locker room area. The center left of the Argentine national team He badly explained to his coach that the linesman told him to shut up and that unleashed his anger.
For his part, Nicolás Tagliafico did not join the Dutch team while Otamendi played the 90 minutes for the Portuguese who finished 3-2 up in the overall result and will meet their rival in the quarterfinals next Friday in the draw for the Champions.