The penalty awarded to Napoli against Inter was not there. Juventus, in the match against Lazio, missed a penalty for a foul on Conceicao. These are the verdicts of referee Gianluca Rocchi, who on Dazn analyzes the most controversial episodes of the last weekend.
We start from Napoli-Inter: “The Lorenzo-Mkhitaryan contact is a very particular episode. The problem is procedural. We have tried to help the assistants go through a process in recent years to transform them into little referees, into technical support, but I didn’t like Bindoni’s interference at all, which goes beyond what we asked him to do, i.e. intervene on things that are 100% clearly within their competence”, says Rocchi referring to the penalty ‘suggested’ by the assistant referee.
“Therefore, for us it is an incorrect decision, it is not a penalty kick, we would have expected the on field review. On a scale I give a lot of responsibility to the assistant, a little to the referee and a little to the VAR. We want clear penalties, we demand that penalty kicks have a high level and this penalty is below the threshold“, he adds. “It was born with a strange procedure, if it was granted live by Mariani it would have been accepted in a different way and we would have supported it more easily, but we didn’t like the procedural path at all”, he says again.
In Lazio-Juve, “the intervention on Conceicao in Lazio-Juve? They weren’t particularly scrupulous even if here Meraviglia makes a superficial reasoning about the step on foot, because not all the step on foot are penalty kicks, I want to underline it clearly, a real battle is needed for the ball and here there is a player looking for the opponent, there is a clear step on foot and we would have expected the on-field review and the penalty kick. It is a case in which a player goes to look for an opponent, finds him and finds him incorrectly, it is comparable to a trip.”