Overview

• Referee Pablo Echavarría reported that Salas told assistant Pablo Gualtieri “la c… de tu madre,” a phrase heard clearly over the officials’ intercom and recorded in the match report.
• By standard sanction for a direct red, Salas will miss at least two league matches against Rosario Central and Sarmiento, with the disciplinary tribunal able to extend the ban.
• The dismissal came late in River Plate’s 2-1 home loss to Deportivo Riestra at the Monumental.
• The flashpoint followed a tussle with Juan Cruz Randazzo, after which Salas protested the assistant’s decision and was shown a straight red for “exceso verbal.”
• River’s skid reached four consecutive defeats, the team departed to boos, and Salas was applauded as he left the field.