Italy’s football association cracked down on wrong decisions with unusual severity against referees. In the hit between AC Milan and AS Roma on Monday (3: 3) there were two wrong penalties.
Referee Piero Giacomelli and video assistant Luigi Nasca, who had not intervened, have now been banned for a month.
Milan were awarded an unjustified penalty for handball by Gianluca Mancini on Monday. The Roman had previously been pushed by Milans Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Forward foul
The matter was even clearer with the penalty for AS Roma, which was not preceded by an offense, even more of a forward foul. The bans were pronounced by Nicola Rizzoli, the referee chief of Serie A.
Rizzoli himself led the 2014 World Cup final between Germany and Argentina (1-0) and spared Manuel Neuer after a penalty foul. At that time, however, there was no video assistant referee.
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They much ban him