What will happen to the Boca-River final at Libertadores? These are the scenarios

From the moment the first object fell on the Boca Juniors bus, players began to speculate on what was happening and what was going to happen.

On Saturday, only two hours were missing for the match and the River Plate Monumental Stadium was already full, waiting for the most desired final for decades of Copa Libertadores between the two Argentine historical rivals .

On one side, there were theories about what was behind an attack that injured several players: it was a fight between the police and the government from the city or a vengeance from the brave bar for the seizure of 300 tickets and 200,000 USD for illegal resale.

Maybe there was no conspiracy behind this, and the problem was that the police operation had brought the Boca bus to a red zone overrun by the fans of River .

On the other hand, there are theories about what would happen.

The match was postponed twice on Saturday and finally suspended on Sunday.

• Cancels the final until further notice
• The first images of the Boca Juniors players after the attack of the supporters of River Plate

A resolution is expected on Tuesday after the presidents clubs. They meet in Asunción with Alejandro Domínguez, director of the South American Confederation of Football (Conmebol).

Political variables come into play, such as the organization of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday with the world's greatest leaders, and recent history, such as the sanctions that made the object of equipment for similar events.

In the midst of speculation and what teams have said, it is possible to develop three scenarios of what can happen.

• "Shameful", "Sad chapter", "Papery", reactions to the riots that led to postponing the superclbadical.

To be played at River and with the public

The first option is to play under the same conditions as Saturday, but with a better designed police operation.

The president of River, the exemplary Rodolfo D'Onofrio, bet on this option. And the mayor, Horario Rodríguez, Larreta, has already admitted that the operation was ineffective.

The first stage, which was 2-2, was in Bombonera de Boca and in this sense, under the theory of reciprocity, missing the return to millionaire territory.

On Saturday, December 8th, one week after the G20 and one before the UAE Club World Cup, scheduled to start on the 12th, where the champion must play against Real Madrid and the other winners of the regional cups. .

This option may fall into the same problem as the previous one – fan violence – and suggest that there was no sanction for what had happened.

That Boca wins at the offices

That is why Boca's president, the powerful lawyer Daniel Angelici, says that River should be sanctioned and that, by applying the rules of Conmebol, he would lose the game.

Boca would be declared champion of an office without having to play.

Angelici, who hopes to be re-elected to the Boca presidency in 2019, is based on Article 18 of the Statute, according to which clubs may be sanctioned by the withdrawal of points and the suspension of their stadium or their participation at competitions.

At the 2015 Libertadores, River and Boca met in the semifinals and at half-time, River players were attacked by fans with pepper spray. The game was suspended, Boca was sanctioned and River went to the final and won the tournament.

Angelici, he said, should apply the same stick.

But there is a nuance: the attack against the players took place outside the stadium, where security was not the responsibility of the team but of the Buenos Aires government.

To be played without public or in another stage

Apart from the above, there are two less likely options, but also considered by the authorities and the press.

One of them is that the game is played in Abu Dhabi just before the Club World Cup, with the advantage that the winner stays in this city ​​to play the tournament.

This would remove all the mystique to an unprecedented match and would not fulfill the contracts in Buenos Aires with sponsors and fans who bought tickets.

Another option considered is that the game be played in the River Monumental, but without public as often happens in Latin America and Europe when the local team is sanctioned.

In fact, the stadium has already been fined for what happened Saturday and if you play with the public, it's because an exception has been made in favor a spectacle.

Just a few weeks ago, another clbadic very popular in Argentina, the Old Boys of Central-Newell, was to be played outside the city of Rosario and without a public hearing to avoid incidents although there were no sanctions.

In fact, another option for the Libertadores' final is to play outside of Buenos Aires although it's hard for River to accept it while he's there. There was already a first match on the opponent's field.

Thus, between violence and fanaticism and speculation football is lived in Argentina. The one of the show with songs and colors and the party has less and less.

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