Gianluca Rocchi, arbitration designator, on the occasion of the press conference at the end of the AIA season, he returned to one of the most controversial episodes of the championship. This is the goal of Francesco Acerbi in Lazio’s victory against Spezia. A 3-4 goal that decided the match at the last minute. The biancoceleste defender was in fact in an offside position at the time of the goal, an irregular position not reported by the linesman and in which there was, erroneously, the intervention of the Var.
ROCCHI’S EXPLANATION – “It seems to me that it is quite clear what happened. It is a bit difficult to explain it, if not based on a communication error. We reluctantly stopped all six referees involved. It is not acceptable for the referee to resume play, but neither for the VAR nor the assistants to say anything about it. In fact, in this case the check was not done. I tried to understand what could have led Luca Pairetto, who among other things at the VAR is very good and knows technology well, to this decision. He probably took too many things for granted and the only concern he had at the time was recovery. He unwittingly and unconsciously shifted attention to something that had nothing to do with it. And he assumed the decision was a good one. ”
THE AUDIO BETWEEN THE REFEREE AND THE VAR – Not only Rocchi’s words, the audio between the referee, Luca Pairetto and the Var clerk, Luigi Nasca, also came out during the controversial episode:
“Look Nikolaou and Acerbi eh, eye eye eye, there is good.” “Eye eh, I don’t see.” “Look Acerbi.” “Go all the way back: this is good, but there we have to put the line, wait. Give me recovery “In the background, then you hear an” Ok “that Pairetto plays for himself and the game resumes. Immediately after, Nasca reacts like this:” Oh, for God’s sake, why did he start again? Ninth!”
