From the penalties in the first leg against Fiorentina to the one denied on Saturday in Naples. In between the one not given with Juve and the hands evaluated differently with Roma
UDINE. Sunday morning in Naples there was only talk of the admonition (exaggerated, true) to Osimhen that will force the Nigerian to miss the next match against Atalanta due to disqualification.
And to the chronicler from the northeast it felt like he was on Mars. “Doctor, but was Osimhen a warning?” Asked the taxi driver. But how? Which team has played the last 18 minutes in ten for an exaggerated red card? And who was denied a penalty kick?
Yes, because it is true that Mario Rui holds Soppy out of the area, but between the two there is a subsequent contact within sixteen meters. Moral? Some teams protect themselves more than others, including Naples that even seven days earlier they had closed the game in Verona by playing in numerical superiority in the last ten minutes due to another excessive expulsion, that of Ceccherini.
Of what happens in the home of others, of course, Udinese is of little interest. Everyone wants their own accounts to return and by revisiting the twenty-nine games played by the bianconeri, it can be said that in Friuli the budget is in the red.
Going backwards, the first questionable direction was that of Ghersini against Fiorentina. Recalled by the Var, he conceded a penalty that the next day all the slow replays considered correct and that a couple of months later the designator Rocchi explained that he was not there.
However, the thing that made Udinese the most angry was that an almost identical contact between Nastasic and Pussetto at the end of the match was not punished with the maximum punishment.
Second episode “indicted” at the Olimpico against Roma: a hand in the area by Mancini, much clearer than the one whistled at Zeegelaar in the second leg, was not detected by either the referee Rapuano or by those who were at the Var.
The appeal is missing two more penalties for Udinese. The one in Turin with Juve is indisputable when Bernardeschi, 1-0 for the hosts, pulled Soppy by the hair. The episode was objectively difficult to detect for the referee Giua, much easier for a Var once again silent.
The most controversial episode was the one with Lazio (Milinkovic-Savic touch on Pereyra’s leg). All the national moviolisti approved the choice of the Massimi referee.
It so happens that a few days later, on the occasion of Lazio’s Europa League match against Porto, an episode with a very similar dynamic that always involved Milinkovic Savic, prompted the Var to recall the referee and concede a penalty kick to the Portuguese.
On the occasion of the match against Milan, the national media made the Devil appear as the team stolen by Udogie’s probable goal, judging that Leao’s was regular (despite a foul on Becao) and not the contact between Tomori and Beto.
It doesn’t just happen with Udinese. Saturday night in Cagliari, Magnain outgoing hit the Sardinian defender Lovato with a punch: for the Milanese slow motion it was simply a risky action.
Who refereed? Di Bello, the same as Udinese-Roma. Given the air, perhaps as a prize, after the break, they will entrust Juve-Inter to him. –
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