AC Milan were left unhappy by the decision to award Lazio a penalty right at the end of Sunday’s game, according to a report this morning.
With virtually the final kick of the game at San Siro two nights ago, Lazio won it and it came in very controversial circumstances. Gustav Isaksen was at the centre of it again – after the red card incident involving Strahinja Pavlovic – as he went down claiming to have been taken out by Mike Maignan.
Despite the fact that he took a touch almost at a right angle and the ball was going for a goal kick, and the fact Isaksen kept running in a straight line, the referee was called over to the VAR monitor and gave the spot kick after just one replay.
According to Corriere della Sera (via MilanPress), there are ‘no excuses’ regarding the defeat and the performance, but there is ‘anger because of a decision that did not go down well because it was considered wrong’.
This is what leaked from Casa Milan after the penalty awarded during added time at the end of Milan-Lazio in favour of the Biancocelesti for Maignan’s challenge on Isaksen. The refereeing heads deemed the decision of the referee Manganiello and the VAR chief Mazzoleni correct.
However, Milan disagree. The paper writes that the Rossoneri club – without raising their voice publicly – ‘asked for greater attention’. Being in ninth place is certainly not the fault of the referees alone, but certain decisions weigh on the balance of a match.
What bothered me about the penalty is that the referee when sent over to the monitor barely looked at the replay and gave the spot kick. It was so fast I wondered if he even saw anything
It is a clear penalty. But Pavlovic was not a red card.
Pavlovic didn’t have chance to catch the ball. Th3 rules are written- if player can’t reach the ball it is red card.
No Pavlovic was sent off for the denail of a clear goal scoring opportunity.
No, it’s not a penalty and not speaking as a fan. The player 100% looked only for the contact. If he took an effort to continue the play by passing or shooting, the ball would be going straight to the goal keeper before any contact and wouldn’t have been a foul. Instead he tried to hit the corner flag with the ball and proceeded to crash in the GK.
The forceful push in the back of Felix with both hands is 10 times less of a ‘controversial penalty’ than this BS.
LOL. So you’re trying to say that it’s OK to trip players inside the box? The ball is going out or not but where in the rulebook does it say that players are allowed to trip opponents? With or without ball.
It was not
What pav was a clear red but the penalty was bs
It has now become usual for every team to criticize the ref …. whether in italy, germany, england, spain …..
Refereeing is very, very, very difficult and it is unfair to expect ref to be spot on in every decision.
Well, that’s why we have VAR – to fix wrong decisions, not to wrong correct decisions… In this case (the penalty) it’s VAR that made the wrong decision and it’s the ref’s error that changed his decision even before he went to the screen.