The Italian papers this morning seem to collectively agree that AC Milan should have been awarded a penalty during last night’s defeat against Roma.
The performance itself was not up to standard from Milan, with Gianluca Mancini scoring the only goal of the game, but there were two controversial decisions which ultimately decided the outcome.
Romelu Lukaku looked offside in the build-up to what became the corner for the goal, and then Tammy Abraham appeared to handle the ball inside the box late on, though VAR checked and cleared that.
This morning’s edition of Corriere dello Sport (via Radio Rossonera) has an in-depth analysis by Edmondo Pinna, who judged the work of the referee Turpin and his assistants.
The newspaper underlines the experience of the French match director who, however ‘does not steal the attention, at times he allows too much play and warns little or inappropriately’.
Then he gets straight to the point: ‘Abraham’s handball is more of a penalty than not, but the players on the pitch accept it’. However, for Pinna the doubt remains.
On the contrary, he seems to be more convinced of the incomplete responsibility of the linesman Danos for the offside preceding the corner that led to the goal.
The expert writes: ‘The impression is that the players are (or are not) aligned very slightly. The feet almost certainly, but it is very likely that Lukaku one way or another by millimetres’.
Today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport focuses in particular on Abraham’s alleged handball in the penalty area at the end of the match. The intervention of the English striker leaves many doubts: ‘VAR intervenes at the end to control a touch with Abraham’s fist on a deflection from a corner: a control that ends without a penalty. Here too, many doubts’.
