The Dutch defense #02 of Inter Milan, Denzel Dumfries, discusses with the Argentine defense #21 of River Plate, Marcos Acuña, after the match of the E of the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup between the Inter Milan of Italy and the River Plate of Argentina at the Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle on June 23, 2025.
Photo: AFP – Pablo Porciunula
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The duel between Inter from Milan and River Plate (2-0)which classified the Italians to the round of 16 and eliminated the Argentines, left one of the most unfortunate scenes of the Club World Cup: Denzel Dumfries and Marcos Acuña were about to fight in the locker roomand they had to be separated by their peers. A tension that was already loaded from Catar 2022.
After a very tense match that resulted in two expelled from RiverLucas Martínez-Quarta and Gonzalo Montiel, the chaos was triggered by the duel that took place in the Italian right and Left Argentina, with dumfries and constantly paired.
Just when the referee whistled the end of the encounter, Dumfries and Acuña, almost without a word, With a subtle gesture of shared and shared hand that indicated the costume tunnelthey went where the cameras could not record to start a fight.
They toured a good part of the field in parallel, waiting to be on a roof, but the rest of the players and coaching staff, who felt the tension throughout the clash, They ran out of the bench to avoid any type of tangana.
In fact, Acuña during the party, unable to control rage for defeat and elimination, faced several members of the Romanian coaching staff Cristian ChivuInter.
Inter players such as Barella and Carlos Augusto, the coach of the 'Nerazzurri', Chivu, or River players like Armani were the first to arrive and stopped Acuña while others of Inter escorted Dumfries to the locker room.
While on the pitch the players had to throw Acuña to the ground, River's fans, located just at the tunnel entrance, He released several objects on the Dutch player hitting his head, although without greater gravity.
In the confusion produced by such a Dantesque scene, it flew over the possibility of some racist insult that in mixed Dumfries zone completely ruled out.
The reality is that The relationship between both players is very tense from the quarterfinals of the Catar 2022 World Cupwhen the Netherlands and Argentina met in a party that was resolved on penalties.
The Portock duel ended with 17 yellow and an expulsion, that of the Dumfries itself when the game ended, which He faced Acuña for celebrating the elimination on his face.
“I understand the pulsations of the players, but the end is not the image we want to give. A gresca between two players makes all the people get into. It is not River style that things end that way”, Analyzed after the game Marcelo Gallardo, coach of River.
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