National of Uruguay and Vélez Sarsfield they played a pre-season friendly, but unfortunately the news was not in what happened in the match played in the Grand Central Park Stadiumbut for the serious incidents occurred outside of it. Shortly after the start of the match, fans of the local team ambushed those of Liniers in the vicinity of the field. There were runs, shots and stones thrown at the bus that was transporting them and which left several injured fans as a result.
The police officers acted to repel the violent, who They attacked the bus when it was heading to the stadium on Avenida Centenario. They were moments of maximum tension and fear, until the situation could be controlled by the security forces. But not everything ended there, since once inside the stadium there was another incident with Argentine supporters.
at the end of the day, the paravalanches of the popular visitor were loosened and this caused the fall of several fans from the visiting team, which should have been attended to. This fact generated that said bias left the stadium and tried to go in search of local supporters. Fortunately, they did not reach their destination, although they did a crossing was generated with the police that prevented a new clash between fans.
“Tonight two buses with Vélez Sarsfield supporters were stoned by supporters of Nacional when they were heading towards the Great Central Park on Avenida Centenario”, the Ministry of the Interior reported to the local newspaper Ovación. “As a result of this Vélez fans descended, generating an altercation between supporters of both clubs that was quickly dissolved by members of the Republican Guard who intervened using less than lethal and explosive ammunition,” they added.
There was a violent precedent that generated this harshness between both sides. It was in 2022, when Vélez Sarsfield and Nacional met in the group zone. El Fortín achieved an agonizing classification, after a great victory against the Uruguayan team by 3 to 2. Since then, there have been strong threats on social networks.
Vélez won again in the Río de la Plata Series, this time against Nacional de Montevideo on penalties.
Vélez Sarsfield defeated Nacional at the Gran Parque Central in Montevideo 3-1 in definition by penalty kicks, after equalizing without goals after 90 regular minutes. It is the second victorious match for Liniers’ team in this Río de la Plata football series that takes place in Uruguay. In this way, the people of Velez were left with the Alexander Medina Cup, named after the current technical director of the Argentine team who also knew how to lead the “Bolso”.
On the previous day, Vélez had just beaten Colón de Santa Fe 1-0 and won the Leonardo Burián Cup, in homage to the Uruguayan goalkeeper from Fort who also played for the sabaleros and today he was the figure by containing three penalty kicks in the definition that way. In the cast of Nacional it was the debut as coach of Ricardo Zielinski.
The contest will continue this Thursday with the participation of two other Argentine teams, since in the afternoon Atlético Tucumán will perform for the second time, after yesterday’s loss against Universidad César Vallejo of Peru by 2-1, against the local Boston River , in Viera Park. While at night the debut of Estudiantes de La Plata will take place, which will play a match of old cup lineage with Peñarol, in its Campeón del Siglo stadium.
Formations:
National: Sergio Rochet, Leandro Lozano, Maximiliano Perg, Christian Almeida, Camilo Cándido; Diego Rodríguez, Manuel Monzeglio, Diego Zabala, Alfonso Trezza; Franco Fagundez and Emmanuel Gigliotti. DT: Ricardo Zielinski.
Velez Sarsfield: Leonardo Burian; Tomás Guidara, Lautaro Gianetti, Miguel Brizuela, Francisco Ortega; Mateo Seoane, José Florentín, Nicolás Garayalde; Jonathan Menendez, Lucas Pratto and Lucas Janson. DT: Alexander Medina.
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