AC Milan’s fixture against Spezia seems to do something strange to the referees. The clash last season was very controversial, with a huge mistake from the referee, and yesterday’s game was also a poor one in that respect.
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Michael Fabbri was the man in charge of yesterday’s game and while he didn’t make any huge mistakes, the whole game was handled poorly. In fact, Gazzetta Dello Sport (via SempreMilan) gave him a 4/10 for his display.
It took five minutes for VAR to check Theo Hernandez’s opener for offside, which was the fault of head VAR referee Luca Banti and not Fabbri. The latter should have given Emil Holm a yellow card after a tactical foul in the first half, but didn’t.
Fabbri ruled out Sandro Tonali’s goal after an on-field review in the 65th minute, which cannot be categorised as a mistake, but he was wrong to give Olivier Giroud the first yellow card. Tonali’s yellow was also too harsh, per the newspaper.
As said, there were no huge mistakes but Fabbri lost too much control of the game.
