Referee Sandro Scharer is the subject of criticism from a lot of AC Milan fans and the players too after the decisions he made during the defeat against Bayer Leverkusen tonight.
Milan since their return to the Champions League have often been tormented and penalised by indecipherable decisions by referees and a lack of intervention from the VAR team, and it happened again tonight.
In the dying minutes Hincapie clearly stamped on Loftus-Cheek but the referee Scharer did not whistle even for a foul. The non-intervention of VAR is also inexplicable given the replays showed the stamp and that it was on the line.
Milan also had a very strong shout for a spot kick when Tammy Abraham was bundled over inside the box by Tapsoba but the on-field decision of no penalty from the Swiss referee Schärer was upheld, despite replays showing the Leverkusen defender did not get the ball and made contact with the man.
Alvaro Morata even had a half-shout when he appeared to get to a low cross and then be kicked in the back of the leg by Tah, yet nothing was given again. Tapsoba’s shove into Theo’s face also could have been a red card, yet it was just one of those nights where nothing major was given in Milan’s favour.
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— SempreMilan (@SempreMilanCom) October 1, 2024
The referee was just in a world of his own, after failing to card the Leverkusen player I just knew we were in for a ride. And thses players play like infants, once you read the room on referee you should be able to adjust your play accordingly.
It’s was just sad to watch.
I’m sure we could have got a player sent off if we had adjusted to their dirty game.
If VAR could not detect such fouls there is a problem.
I remember last season Florenzi got tripped in box against Dortmund.
Even Italian referee you hated AC milan
Way others referee will sport Milan
We would have been really annoyed if that was given against us at the other end, that’s an example where RLC is really trying to ‘sell’ the penalty and it’s not very convincing. We definitely didn’t get the luck with this ref but that decision in isolation definitely wasn’t a nailed on penalty IMO.
Alright . Let’s just use the referee to try to get some sleelp tonight.
I don’t know why milan losing hurts me so much even when i don’t expect them to win.
I’m tired of this feeling.
I’m trying to stop supporting this team but I just can’t.
It’s confusing.
Watching Milan suffer, struggling to win. Makes me sad.
Likewise me am sick and tired of this team
Emerson Royal is such an unqualified player to play for Milan. Can’t create no runs, can’t cross. He plays like he’s scared of the ball.. I just hate the fact that the team has become watered down over the years. I’m so tired of this! Even the coach sure of himself. Everything looks like try your luck at this moment, no certainties.
Ref was bad but this was not a pen.
The goal should have been disallowed for offsides. The scorer was originally offsides and took advantage of that.
That how offside has worked for the last…. 10 years – it’s only at the point the shot was taken there’s an offside check and he was miles on
The ref was awful, he was worse than Emerson.
The ref was biased I saw the game
Milan always go for average players order clubs bench instead of looking for quality they are looking for quantity
Hello everyone.
I have followed this page for 6 years now, I am Milan fan for 30 years. I never commented anything. But this time I will.
We have to accept that the team is just average team. Players are average. Management is average at best. I cant understand people who say that Reeijnders is great player, his decision making is on sunday league level, I cant understand that someone is not seeing this. Leao is average, he is fast, and thats it. I can go with examples whole week. I just wanted to say games are boring to watch, football evolved and we are not following the trend. That is just that. We should accept this or go our way. I started to watch other teams play (bayer, bayern, liverpool, etc). That is football, it should be fun for fans, not a agony of 90min. When I see Tomori passing I feel astonished with his touch and IQ because I saw better technique in kindergarden.
I just wanted to say that football is simple, you have to have home grown players, you should give them play time. It doesnt matter how old they are. Just try. Or you have to have money to buy real players. The club have to decide. Our current situation is just sad.
Forza Milan
Welcome.
And brilliant username!
There’s a lot of depressing truth in that!
But we are what we are. And a football club is like family (and is often because of family!).
I have no expectations for the club. The management are hopeless. The transfer market a farce. But I do want more from the fans.
I’ve been given Reijnders are hard time recently because he’s driving me mad partly because I can see some potential there. But I try to be respectful (as respectful as one can be when they’re listing numerous failings about a player).
However so many on here lay into other players including players who have contributed to one of the few highlights of Milan in the past 10 years – our Scudetto winning side of 21/22.
Lovely post bro! Many many truths in it
His leg seems to be outside of the penalty box, so at most it’s a freekick.
The late foul on RLC was not a penalty – but it was a foul and deserved a direct kick. The problem was his embelishment, which is probably the reason it wasn’t called at all. However, the early foul on Tammy was clearly a penalty. 100%. All day, every day. And when you strike another player in the face, you get a red card. Period. Emerson was awful (as expected). There were many examples where he held the ball up on what should have been through-balls or quick passes or give-and-goes with Pulisic, but Emerson had to stop and look around and think – his passes and crosses and critical tactical thinking are all poor. I can’t imagine why he didn’t get pulled at half time.