In the end the strong complaints of the Fiorentina for the assignment in favor of Milan of the penalty that decided Sunday evening’s match at the end, had their basis. At least according to what emerged on Monday, with the thoughts of the referee designator Gianluca Rocchi (In summary: it wasn’t a penalty), and yesterday with the episode of Open Var aired on Dazn in which Andrea DeMarcoformer whistleblower and now responsible for Can A and B relations, reiterated that what happened should not be sanctioned with the eleven-metre shot. No rigor and above all the public warning to Gimenez for the excessive “stage” for the blow received, with the announcement that from next day – will it really be like this? – there will be greater severity for those who emphasize contacts or simulate blows to the face. First the highlight of the match was broadcast, namely the clash in the Viola area between Paris and Gymnastics. Marinelli he stopped the game with the Mexican on the ground, hands in his face, in the 39th and 46th minute of the second half. The Tivoli referee waited 2 minutes and 24 seconds before his two colleagues at VAR – Abisso and Di Paolo – called him back to the on field review. Marinelli observed some replays, also asking to be able to analyze them at natural speed, and after about 50 seconds he opted for the penalty and the warning.
Marco his Thuram-Bonny
From here De Marco intervened: “Marinelli had read the situation on the pitch well, and when there is intensity, as in this case, the VAR must not intervene. What if the hold could be interpreted as a foul contact? Let’s say that with the very high penalty threshold that Rocchi is carrying out this season too, this would not have been a penalty kick – he added -. However, if the referee had had the feeling from the field that the intensity was sufficient to award a penalty, and he had granted it, the VAR should not have intervened and removed it. The contact Thuram-Bonny in Juve-Inter? Two similar episodes, in Turin the referee had not blown the whistle and the VAR had not intervened, the same situation that occurred, similar, in San Siro, but in this case the VAR should not have intervened”. Regarding Gimenez’s attitude, De Marco was harsh: “It accentuates the fall a lot and this season we have seen many players who as soon as they are touched it is as if they had had a more violent blow. Measures are also being studied in the future for situations of this type, because maximum respect is required on the pitch. There will be a tight crackdown as early as next Sunday – he announced -, in the sense that the referees will try to avoid situations of this type from occurring in every way.”
