“There is no distance between Zeegelaar and the opponent”: that penalty granted to Rome is still debatable

UDINE. The apple never falls far from the tree. Imagine Filippo Meli from Parma, one of the prince flag-wavers of our championship, a partner of Gianluca Rocchi, the current designator, with whom he directed fine international competitions, including the Europa League final three years ago, the one won by Chelsea in Sarri.

Meli decided that that of Marvin Zeegelaar in the area was a touch of a penalty hand, in the 93 ‘of Udinese-Roma, and the tree, pardòn, the referee Marco Di Bello went decisively towards the spot without even waiting for confirmation of the Var Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni who then, not counting on a clear and glaring review, could only confirm the visual impression of the whistle from Brindisi.

As you can see from the still image, however, Di Bello was covered by the Romanist Shomurodov who, turning and blocking the ball with his chest, carambulated (perhaps) the ball on the back of Zeegelaar’s left hand who was running backwards.

This is why the decision could not have been taken by the linesman Meli, placed on the out side of the Rizzi arch.

Meli, who in a recent lecture held at the Aia di Como section, advised young recruits “Be objective with yourself and take care of the details”, however, would not have worried about a fundamental aspect in detecting the (alleged) hand ball that it cost Udinese the victory, as underlined by former referee Mauro Bergonzi, speaking to Tmw radio: «The regulation says that there must be distance and that the player must intentionally touch the ball, but I do not see anything unnatural. It is not rigor ».

An opinion diametrically opposed to that expressed warmly and resolutely by Dazn’s moviolista Luca Marelli, pulling Udinese manager Pierpaolo Marino by the jacket, who was quite clear in separating the “product” provided by the streaming platform from the utterances by the former referee of the Como section, dismissed in 2009 by Can AB, just in the year in which Meli in turn officially abandoned the whistle to devote himself to the flag.

On Monday 14, in his column broadcast on Twitch and re-proposed on YouTube, Marelli nevertheless denied having the certainty of Meli’s “advice” to Di Bello who – textually – “would have guessed” Zeegelaar’s hand ball because he was “impalled”.

The commentator from Dazn then confirmed not only the penalty in favor of Roma, but also returned to the goal to be canceled in Udogie against Milan.

We are waiting to know if there are clear images of the two episodes: perhaps he has seen them and they could also be proposed in Friuli, otherwise Marelli seems to be increasingly the press officer in The Hague.

On the other hand, the refereeing class on Sunday did not fare very well, it caused discussions in Verona and Turin, as well as in Udine. To the advantage of Naples, Inter and Rome. Whoever wants to can now also have a bitter laugh .—

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