Osimhen appeared to be fouled in the 18-yard area, but the referee refused to award a penalty
Former referee Antonio Iannone has criticized the referee’s performance during Sunday’s match between Napoli and Inter Milan at the Diego Maradona Stadium, Soccernet.ng reports. Ta.
Napoli suffered humiliation on Sunday when they hosted former Serie A champions Inter Milan with Diego Maradona. The match was almost even, but Inter and Milan narrowly won.
Goals from Hakan Calhanoglu, Nicolo Barella and Markus Thuram sealed victory for Simeone Inzaghi’s side. However, the Partenopeans had their take-feel canceled due to two questionable calls by referee Davide Massa.
For example, for the first goal there was a foul in front of Lautaro Martinez, but neither the referee nor the video referee blew the whistle.
When Osimhen hit his ankle and was fouled in the penalty area in the 57th minute, the referee did not blow the foul whistle and did not record VAR.
Following the result, former referee Iannone criticized the performance of Massa and the VAR officials.
“From Massa’s point of view VAR could not have intervened (in the Osimhen situation) even though the visibility was not perfect and he could not process what we saw. I’m worried,” Iannone said via Napoli. Magazine
“We take another photo behind the goal, from which we can see how Osimhen positioned himself within the dynamics of the event, with Acerbi physically behind him. , hitting him in the lower back and lower leg. This precarious balancing intervention becomes important, but the image we see is not what Massa sees.
“Why didn’t VAR bring Massa to the monitor to show him?” That’s puzzling and I’d like to know what kind of discussion there was between the referee and VAR regarding the foul . ”
The defeat leaves Napoli in fifth place in Serie A, but they will aim to get back to winning ways next week against Juventus.
