The sending off of Fikayo Tomori against Chelsea on Tuesday night was just another example of refereeing decisions in Europe going against AC Milan, a report claims.
As has been reported by Milan News, there are at least five instances of refereeing decisions going against Milan in European competition in recent years.
It has been a long road to get Milan back to regular European competition participation and upon arriving, the refereeing standard has proved to be very poor.
It seemed to start with a dive from Danny Welbeck in the 2018 Europa League tie against Arsenal which led to a Round of 16 knockout. In the same tournament in 2021, Franck Kessie had a goal ruled out for a seemingly mystical handball against Manchester United.
Moving onto the Champions League, there was the second yellow card handed to Kessie in a group game against Atletico Madrid which Milan were dominating and leading. It was a harsh decision by Cuneyt Cekir, but it didn’t stop there.
In stoppage time, a penalty was given for a Pierre Kalulu handball which was actually a handball by Thomas Lemar. Luis Suarez scored the penalty and Milan were beaten.
A week later, Milan were at the Estadio Do Dragao to play Porto and they were denied a clear penalty when Matheus Uribe had handled the ball. Then, Luis Diaz scored after a clear foul by Mehdi Taremi in the build-up which Felix Brych had missed.
The latest instalment is of course the sending off of Tomori against Chelsea on Tuesday night by Daniel Siebert.