Sporting Cristal continues with a new winning streak. This time the blues defeated 4-2 to Cienciano for the 18th round of the Opening Tournament 2023. Undoubtedly, with this incredible streak, the rimense team can dream of the title at the end of the year.

In a match that had a lot of excitement and controversial actions, it also ended in the expulsion of Sporting Cristal's defender, Rafael Lutiger, and the rimense coach, Tiago Nunes, who later decided to speak emphatically about what happened with the media.

Tiago Nunes questioned Rafael Lutiger's expulsion

"It is becoming more difficult to work in Peru every day, we are facing some things that have no explanation. The expulsion of Rafa (Lutiger) is a shame, the referee says that he punched the Cienciano player, and the images prove that there was nothing," Nunes said to DirecTV Sports.

"Then, I asked the referee, what was the reason for my expulsion and he tells me that there was an insult when I only said, red only for us, and the linesman says that I insulted him, then I wondered what the insult was," he added.

Tiago Nunes and his categorical comment about VAR

The coach of Sporting Cristal highlighted the good moment of his team in the 2023 League 1: "I think it is something personal, it must be because I once complained about a yellow or red card. They say that Cristal is a team that does not score and does not fight, but we are working and fighting all the time," he said.

"What do we do from this moment on, I don't know how to do it? In the other press conference, I said that if we want to improve Peruvian football, refereeing has to allow the game to be played, there has to be contact, and things have to go normally. I hope that VAR that is coming now can be something positive, in Brazil it was an improvement because it is a good tool, but humans command the VAR," he concluded.