Luís Castro detonates Botafogo’s draw

O Botafogo stayed at 0-0 with LDU in a game held last Thursday night, the 4th. Even with the support of its fans at the Nilton Santos stadium, Glorioso was unable to overcome the rivals’ “anti-game”, and Luis Castro left the confrontation frustrated. The coach, in a press conference, did not hide that the idea was to leave with a victory in the last round of the South American and took the opportunity to pin the rivals and the arbitration.

As usual, the Portuguese player showed all his irritation with the LDU’s stance on playing “antigame”. This is not the first time that the Botafogo coach has been bothered by this type of event and has again criticized the refereeing. According to him, the main culprit for the Ecuadorian rivals to have achieved the tie was precisely because of the main referee of the match.

“About what is the antigame proposed by the opponent in the match (LDU), I have a very clear opinion about it. The referee is in charge of the game and must have two decisive concerns in the game: controlling that there is fair play from the first to the last of the game and not allowing anti-play. Therefore, any arbitrator who does not have these two premises met, I will never agree“, he stated.

I think that today the opponent clearly opted for a strategy of making three times more fouls than us… when the game was stopped for long periods, it was clearly a strategy to disturb us and for time to pass without a game”.followed.

Luís Castro continued with his statement about the “antigame” practiced by the LDU and listed the consequences of this for the result of the match: “Game is marked by not having the opportunity to score goals, they (LDU) with a line of five (defenders). Everything is very tied up. And they didn’t let our game flow and that was fatal for our pretensions“.

How was the situation of Botafogo in the South American?

With the result, Botafogo won its second draw in three games in the competition. The team also claimed a victory during that first part of the group stage and now has five points. However, LDU is still the leader of group A with seven points and only the first place qualifies for the next phase of the Copa Sudamericana.