Today, the FIGC have held a ‘referee revolution’ meeting, and Franco Ordine has brought up a rather interesting stat.
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The fallout from Inter’s win against Juventus is still going on, especially with Milan pretty much out of the title race now. Perhaps it is keeping an old wound open and vulnerable to a sting. However, the Rossoneri may still be able to feel hard done by.
Pierre Kalulu’s challenge sent shockwaves around Italian football, with many feeling that he was harshly shown a second yellow for seemingly not making contact with Alessandro Bastoni.
Since, the Italian has apologised for making such a meal of the challenge, but no punishment has been given to him.
Inter’s red cards against the rest
For Franco Ordine, the journalist believes that there have been big mistakes made, and highlighted that there may be bigger issues with the number of red cards given to certain teams, as MilanNews relays.
“I only share one thing about the card, in this championship there have been many mistakes, repeated and that have had many teams as victims, not only Napoli. It’s not a question of good or bad faith, I say we need to give this story a football setting.
“When a team doesn’t work, the coach is changed and so at this moment the companies should not bark at the moon but should reason to find a solution to this series of mistakes.
“There is no consistent guideline from the beginning to the end, from hand fouls to penalties things change during the championship and therefore you have to change Rocchi, period and that’s it.
“Since the management didn’t work, the results are unsatisfactory and therefore the coach is changed. Rocchi performs a service and if your football company realizes that it doesn’t work, you change the service”
“The big mistakes in this championship against Napoli are those against Atalanta and Juve, in favor instead I only see the penalty against Genoa and there is a macro penalty.
“Then there is a fact that I want to underline: in the last 5 years I see Lazio and Milan who have over 20 expulsions while there is Inter who have had 5 expulsions in the last 5 years. Kalulu’s foul is a big background of the referee, it’s not a precise bad faith.”