There was a lot of controversy in the post-match of Genoa-Napoli from the rossoblù coach: “Wrong rules”
Bitterness is the dominant feeling in Daniele De Rossi’s words at the end of the match against Genoa. A match that his team seemed to have interpreted in the right way, but which got out of hand in the last minute due to a generous penalty awarded after Cornet’s intervention on Vergara, leaving the Grifone coach with a mix of pride for the performance and anger for the referee’s decisions. “I’m happy with the performance of my boys, but giving a penalty like that makes you fall out of love with this sport. We’re so sorry because we played a great match against a strong team, and to see it decided by episodes like that hurts.” According to the coach, however, the error is behind the scenes: “This regulation is wrong, the football I was used to worked differently. This wasn’t a clear error, I don’t really understand why the VAR intervened. I was the first VAR fan, in my time a few less robberies would have made me suffer. We’re giving him a dangerous power, there’s no turning back now. The contacts will always be there, we’ll find a game that will change and it’s a shame for everyone. We’re in it and we’ll all suffer penalties like this.” De Rossi finally commented on Buongiorno’s defensive mistakes: “Football is made of mistakes, without them there would be no goals. Even Napoli’s first two goals came from our carelessness.”
