In the 66th minute of the match, The 21-year-old tricolor forward was in a corner of the playing field and launched his pirouette before the mark of Facundo Bonifazzi. The ball passed the player, but the attacker committed a foul by grabbing it by the neck when he tried to pass it.
Ocampo fell to the ground and when he stopped he received a push from Guzmán Rodríguez, with whom he had had a duel in several plays of the first half, to which the tricolor reacted by raising his hands and leaving the place.
Watch Ocampo’s play at minute 3:20:
Later, other River players such as Facundo Ospitaleche and Bonifazzi himself came to that sector to look for the rival striker, which caused Nacional players to also appear and the attacker to be retired by Rafael García, who had entered in the second half.
The situation did not happen to majors, although the climate warmed up in the night of the Great Central Park, that had been marked by the tributes that both teams made to the “Morro” Santiago García.
And on the networks a debate of several years was opened in Uruguayan and world football, about the realization of this type of plays at certain moments of the matches.
For many, doing a luxury like that of Ocampo when their team is winning comfortably is a mockery of the rival, a screened or, as it is called, a slate, which, also for many, justifies the reaction of the markers that suffer.
For others, meanwhile, it is a match situation to stand out in which the ability of a footballer and his ability to overcome an opponent with a genius is seen, which is not a humiliation at all, but a valid resource.