Former Serie A referee Luca Marelli compared the penalty awarded to Inter‘s Lautaro Martinez during the Coppa Italia final win over Juventus to playing PlayStation.
With Juventus 2-1 ahead and just 10 minutes remaining, referee Paolo Valeri awarded Inter a penalty after Martinez went down after being sandwiched in the penalty area by Juve defenders Leonardo Bonucci and Matthijs de Ligt, which Hakan Calhanoglu dispatched.
“These are the types of penalties you simply should be not be awarding on the pitch,” he said on the Vaccaronni Twitch channel. “If the Lautaro one is a penalty then we are talking about PlayStation.”
Marelli also suggested Inter were lucky to finish the match with 11 players.
“[Marcelo] Brozovic was booked and after the whistle kicks the ball away,” he added. “At that point it should have been an automatic second yellow card.”
It was a night of high tension at the Stadio Olimpico with Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri sent from the stands for a furious reaction and later claimed he was kicked by someone on the Inter bench.
Inter were awarded a second penalty in extra time after De Ligt appeared to catch international team-mate Stefan de Vrij on the knee. Ivan Perisic stepped up to score his second and Inter’s fourth.