Tijjani Reijnders was sent off in AC Milan’s 1-0 win against Udinese for denying the latter an obvious goalscoring opportunity. It’s a decision that has caused great debate on social media, but at least he will not be suspended for long.
It was in the 29th minute that Sandi Lovric found himself in a good position, with Reijnders doing his best to recover and stop the chance. Unfortunately for Milan, there was contact and the Udinese man wasted no time falling over, resulting in the referee pulling up the red card.
Former referee Luca Marelli admitted that the decision ‘leaves a sour taste in the mouth‘, but that it was inevitable given that contact did take place. Nevertheless, Reijnders will have to a serve a one-game suspension for the foul and will thus miss the Bologna game.
He will not, however, miss the game against Napoli since a red-card suspension depends on the severity of the foul/cause. Theo Hernandez was recently handed a two-game suspension for insulting the referee, while serious fouls can also be considered worthy of two games.
Reijnders’ foul, meanwhile, was minimal and should thus be treated as a second yellow card. This should be confirmed by the Sporting Judge as soon as all the games of the round have been played.
There was no fault, the card is invalid..what’s the point in taping games if they can’t rule over a mistake that was made?
The ref made a bad call, the bare fúcking minimum they could do is
A) take his pay for the game (cùnt doesn’t deserve a cent)
B) scrub the red card and that silly one match suspension.
It’s a foul. Probably not a red card, though the Udinese player was going alone against Mike, but still. The mistake is on Reijnders here, confirming what we already knew that he’s a liability when defending. Hopefully he’ll learn from that.
That’s not a foul …but if u award a foul in that position that’s a straight red card as he is the last defender…but again, NOT A FOUL…
The dude tripped himself..it was not a foul. Furthermore when he felt contact he dramatically “fell “
We can see in slow motion that Reijnders hits the left foot from behind, which makes the players fall, but dramatically or not there is a contact and Reijnders isn’t playing the ball.
No, you can see in slow motion that lovric hits the knee with his foot and then falls. Intentionally falls.
It’s not like tijani put the knee there to trip him, he was just running.
It was 100% simulation from lovric.
No it’s your own interpretation. What we see is the Udinese player in control of the ball. Reijnders isn’t playing the ball and is behind him. He makes him fall by touching his foot with his knee. In that situation, it’s a foul 100% of the time.
Fúck off. It’s simulation and a yellow for lovric.
Good thing is he can be rested that game and fonseca must rotate. He can be used 90 minutes against Club Brugge and Fofana in case early lead can be rested for game against Bologna
I made an upscaled 4K 120fps video of the segment where Lovric fell down in front of Reijnders and uploaded it to youtube. You can find the video by searching for the title:
“Lovric trips himself to get Reijnders red carded”.
What kind of world are we in when this is a red card?
I’d love to be in charge, I’d give cards to everyone for simulation until it is stamped out. This why Italian football is behind in Europe.
The problem was Reijnders movement after Lovric went down. From what I see in the replay, the ref didn’t give it immediately, only when Reijnders was a bit hesitant in his next move and thereby showin a bit of insecurity, the ref decided foul. As for the VAR: the pictures didn’t show that the red card was wrong since there was a ridiculous contact but still contact. Had Reijnders just played on and therefore the ref maybe decided to just continue, the pictures of the ridiculous contact would not have been enough for the VAR to overrule.
Firstly when a player is considered to be fouled while going clean through on goal like Lovric was then it’s red without a debate.
Secondly a player has the right to go on the ground when a contact is made from behind him regardless of the amount of contact. Because the rule doesn’t specify what amount is sufficient for a foul, so it only should to be considered a contact to be a foul.
So was the right call IMO.
“Oh ye that small contact can’t take Lovric does, he should’ve continued running instead of diving”. Well to be fair,who does that when the alternative is getting an opponent sent off? Do people actually believe that the players going down for penalties couldn’t off kept running? It’s the pathetic nature of the game.
Only argument is if one believes there was absolutely no contact.