Argentina legend Messi slams Brazilian police as Martinez launches himself at officer in Maracana trouble
Earth winners Argentina’s 1-0 triumph over Brazil was polluted by clog vex at the Maracana Arena on Tuesday night.
Kick-off was gripped off by fifty percent an hour in Rio de Janeiro after rival supporters and policemen clashed, through both kits of players attempting to victim the instance down in the past at some point reverting to the dressing elbowroom in the past the game might commence.
Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was shot attempting to climb the hoarding to interfere with a policemen police exec wielding a baton in the past being towed away by group-associates.
Once the order was reclaimed, Nicolas Otamendi’s second-fifty percent header conferred Argentina an historic Earth Cup qualifying triumph, through Joelinton sent off for the hosts.
Lionel Messi claimed on Argentina’s X feed: “This group lingers to attain historic things. Although today was not the most valuable, it is something genuinely nice.
“We essential this triumph after the loss versus Uruguay.
“We licensed it was participating in be a straining game, the same to the one in the Copa America final. They pressed a play befoul, they attended sift for us high upward and it was straining for us to have long goods. These galleries are discerned by niceties.”
Referring to the same scenes at the Maracana in the past Fluminense’s win over Boca Juniors this year, Messi briefed press benefactors: “We saw how [police] were striking the human beings, it already happened in the Libertadores final. They were more fixated on that than on the game.
“We attended the storage space locker elbowroom offered that it was the most secured way to victim whatever down, a misfortune might have happened.”
Emi Martinez contrasting through the Brazilian policemen who mobbed supporters 🤯 image.twitter.com/mThOGe9mlj
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It was Brazil’s initially-ever abode loss in a Earth Cup qualifier and their 3rd in a row after previous losses to Uruguay and Colombia, through their course to the 2026 Earth Cup staring decidedly shaky.
The hosts were the much better side in the initially fifty percent and might have filched the lead simply in the past the respite but Palette forward Gabriel Martinelli saw his shot separated off the jabber upward by north London nemesis Cristian Romero.
Martinelli missed out on another pivot opportunity after the respite, through Martinez refuting him from close debt unification.
The defending winners took a 63rd-minutes lead when former Manchester Urbane defender Otamendi spearheaded abode Giovani Lo Celso’s niche through their lone project on target of the night.
Newcastle’s Joelinton saw red in the last 10 minutes when he struck out at Rodrigo De Paul to content a desolate night for the hosts, through the inquest to their ruining kind and the fiendish scenes in the arena kit to rumble on.
