La Gazzetta dello Sport believe that referee Marco Di Bello got a major call wrong during last night’s game between AC Milan and Fiorentina at San Siro.
This morning’s edition of the paper (via PianetaMilan) gives Di Bello a 6 out of 10 for his performance as the referee last night, and they think that he got one incident in particular quite badly wrong.
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He considered Fabiano Parisi’s challenge on Theo Hernandez to be a genuine play for the ball which means that it would not be punishable by a red card given the penalty was called.
However the paper recall that he had not chance of getting to the ball and instead the full-back simultaneously pushed and tripped Theo as he was bearing down on goal, so it should have been a red.
On the alleged penalty that Fiorentina appealed for, Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s arms were in not out, while he was not enlarging himself and thus it wasn’t given by Di Bello.
I wondered about that too. Seeing as he was last man technically but so too was Tomori on that foul near the penalty box. So it evens out. I wouldn’t likw to see a Parisi red though.nit good.for the game. They’re already punished by the pen
“On the alleged penalty that Fiorentina appealed for, Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s arms were in not out, while he was not enlarging himself and thus it wasn’t given by Di Bello.” I believe it was VARs review that ended up as a no penalty incident but mainly due to the fact that the ball hit his hip first then arm in which case you can’t have a pen awarded if the ball hits another part of the body onto the arm regardless of if the arm is in an unnatural position 😊
I dont think that Tomori thing even was a foul, but that’s beside the point. The rules don’t metnion anything about “last man” AFAIK. The red card is given for denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity, and i don’t think you can classify Tomoris challange as such.
For the Parisi foul – that is the same thing that Tomori got red carded for vs Chelsea last season. DOGSO in the PK area + no attempt to play the ball = red card. Personally dont like the rule, but is is clearly there, so I dont see why should it be applied selctively like it is right now. We got burned by it so I would like to see this applied to others as well.
You’re saying that you think Parisi didn’t play the ball or attempted to? I tend to not like the way some of these rules get applied in modern football. Especially handballs but I digress
He got in Theo’s legs from behind. He was nowhere near being able to play the ball.
Plus he showed his back after the kick. So… Double offense to make sure Theo wouldn’t get to shoot. Red card. Clear as a daylight. No question about it.
Parisi should be red but eh i already getting used to with Italian referee making plenty of “weird” decisions.
I’m not an expert but I believe there is a double jeopardy thing at play. It can either be a penalty or a red but a team cannot give up both on the same play.
This is from memory from a game last year when commentators were explaining a similar situation.