The consumer protection agency in Italy has filed a formal legal complaint demanding Serie A games Milan–Spezia and Spezia-Lazio be replayed due to clear technical errors from the referee and VAR.
The Codacons filed the motion in the Rome Tribunal today, calling on the FIGC to order the replay of the two matches in order to guarantee the regularity of the 2021-22 Serie A season.
Their legal argument is that both games were decided by “macroscopic technical errors” by the referee, assistant referees and VAR.
Milan were 1-1 with Spezia in stoppages when Junior Messias scored a goal, but it was not valid because the referee blew the whistle for a free kick too early rather than give the advantage to the Rossoneri.
Moments later, Spezia went on the counter-attack and scored the winner for a 2-1 result at San Siro.
The referee confessed to his mistake and was distraught, as he knew VAR could not intervene in these situations.
As for Spezia 3-4 Lazio, that was decided by a Francesco Acerbi goal in injury time that should’ve been disallowed for offside.
In this case, the VAR was seemingly to blame, not realising that the goalkeeper had come way off his line, so Acerbi needed to be level with two outfield players rather than just one.
There is still some confusion over exactly what happened in that incident, some suggesting there was a lack of communication between the VAR and the referee, so he restarted play without waiting for the check to be completed.
This appeal, like many of those presented by the Codacons, is unlikely to go anywhere.
Spezia had already appealed over the last few days for a replay of the Lazio match, but were told it was impossible.
Nonetheless, the wording of the appeal is likely to create some waves, as it accuses the Federation of damaging “not only clubs, but also fans and those who bet on results that were clearly falsified by incredible refereeing errors.
“These are not simply errors of interpretation at the discretion of referees, but technical errors in the application of the rules of the sport.”
Il #Codacons ci riprova: depositato un ricorso al Tribunale di Roma per la ripetizione di Milan-Spezia e Spezia-Lazio https://t.co/Udjm2wlJIe pic.twitter.com/Lg9zaEDUzF
— Calcio e Finanza (@CalcioFinanza) May 6, 2022
You’re damn right they falsified those results. Milan should’ve had the Scudetto in the bag by now.
A lot of errors this season. Torino – Inter & Juve – Inter also. Milan would have been champions now if not for all the wrong decisions
Milan and Anon
They should also replay the derby you stole and the Roma games you stole. And Lazio v Milan as the Tonali push was obvious
You’re a joke Francesco.
What is the meaning of football if every controversy game had to be replayed?
We will be wasting time for life just to replay all the matches that potentially controversial
Perhaps we should learn to accept that as part of life, if you failed this time there will always be next time to try
udine Milan they scored with his hand where is the var at that time ? Milan had 2 games errors by now Milan won the scudetto forza Milan per sempre
The Milan thing was a farce and I didn’t see the Lazio one because you couldn’t pay me to watch them, but sounds just as ludicrous. However, that’s sport isn’t it?
When organisations with interests outside football, start arguing that a mistake has damaged their commercial opportunities, AND those cases start getting heard, we are in trouble.
Counting the points together that Milan lost due to poor refereeing that would made them Scudetto winner’s 2 weeks ago.
Italian referee’s are a joke and yet we wonder why we keep getting les and les attention from viewers overseas