Referee Daniel Siebert has been rightly criticised by this morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport for getting major calls wrong in last night’s game between Milan and Chelsea.
The paper (via MilanNews) talks about the penalty and red card incident first, stating that Fikayo Tomori had one hand resting on the shoulder of Mason Mount but only that rather than pulling him back, so to award a spot kick was the wrong decision.
What happened on 18 minutes between Tomori and Mount did not look like an overwhelming impediment to the point that the Chelsea player – already free from contact – took two steps and managed to get his shot away.
If it was a penalty then the red card was fair because it would be a DOGSO (denial of a goal scoring opportunity), but it simply was not a penalty kick as there was not enough contact and Mount still shot.
From that moment on, referee Siebert totally lost his control over the game. He also should have sent Raheem Sterling off early in the second half for a second yellow card, so everything major went against Milan.
