Udinese, what a joke: Roma equalized in injury time thanks to a phantom penalty

UDINE. Let’s put it this way: if he were to play a pizza with his friends at five-a-side football, Pozzo would never call Marco Di Bello from Brindisi to referee. This goes beyond the (ghost) penalty that in injury time allowed Roma to equalize a match that Udinese dominated in the construction of the (many) scoring chances that happened, as well as the (beautiful) goal of Molina that unlocked the result.

Wax? Was there not (the penalty)? Did the Var Mazzoleni from the Lissone room help the referee? Or was it the linesman Filippo Meli who pushed towards this decision? Di Bello pointed out to Rodrigo Becao, who was asking for explanations, just the line assistant under the Rizzi arch, certainly the referee from Brindisi is not a lucky charm for Udinese.

You know, in football even the cabal counts: here, Di Bello is Udinese’s black cat. Two wins in eleven previous matches, nine losses in a row, three out of three against Roma. These are the certainties, the numbers.

And if you want to add that he is an international referee, you have to answer yes: it is true, but so far he has been chosen by the Uefa leaders to direct, among others, Breidablik, Mura and Royal Antwerp, which only has the name of “royal”. Best wishes for his future career in the cups.

On the other hand, the one who stopped refereeing for some time is Dazn’s consultant, the moviolista Luca Marelli. At the end of the game, after eight o’clock, protest phone calls arrived in the editorial office, not so much for the blackout of the images at the end of the first half – as confirmed at the end, apologizing, the colleague Federica Zille -, but for the judgment of approval without the slightest doubt by Marelli on the episode of rigor (a judgment also contested by the director Pierpaolo Marino) who labeled Zeegelaar’s touch as “voluntary”.

Dinner paid for by Di Bello, Marelli. Probably there is also one left by Milan director Paolo Maldini, given that even in the case of Udogie’s controversial goal at San Siro he had spent – without showing a shred of image that was not a “chemical trail” – for an annulment that did not ‘was. Judgment: postponed. He had started his advice well, then he let himself be dazzled by the glitter of the toys of the “grown-ups”.

The one who had a bad start, on the other hand, was Mourinho. At the beginning, let’s face it, he had little understanding of Udinese which was gathering talent and playing on the right thanks to Molina, Pereyra and Deulofeu.

So much so that on 1-0 even the crossbar hit by left-handed Makengo came from an action that began in that area of ​​the pitch. Left of the Frenchman on the crossbar, on the “pumpkin” of Rui Patricio and on the post before finishing his trajectory as a pinball machine outside. What bad luck.

Makengo had been chosen by Cioffi at the beginning to complete a midfield without the suspended Walace, replaced in the center by Jajalo, and with Arslan on the bench, thanks to a slight fever attack. Considering that Success has again forfeited and that Nuytinck had just recovered, there were few alternatives in the race for the Juventus coach, where the good Mou in the second half unloaded a flurry of attacking players on the field, from El Shaarawy to Afena-Gyan, from Shomurodov to Carles Perez to make the 3-4-1-2 become more and more attacking, up to a sort of 4-2-4 in the final to try to save what can be saved.

It is difficult to know if, without Di Bello’s “play”, he would have hit the reserve goal, a few minutes before the rigorino he risked capitulating on a diagonal saved by Rui Patricio (yellow and red saint) to Samardzic, one of Cioffi’s changes with Pussetto and Zeegelaar, who entered the place of the injured Nehuen Perez to become an instrument of destiny. –

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