Napoli “will go for an appeal” against Kalidou Koulibaly and Lorenzo Insigne’s bans, the club’s lawyer confirms.
Koulibaly was dismissed for a second yellow card after sarcastically applauding referee Paolo Mazzoleni, while Lorenzo Insigne was also shown red for kicking Keita Baldé Diao.
Both men have been banned for two matches, but the first in particular is controversial after the Senegalese international was subjected to racist chanting for much of the match.
Napoli “will go for an appeal” against Kalidou Koulibaly and Lorenzo Insigne’s bans, the club’s lawyer confirms.
Koulibaly was dismissed for a second yellow card after sarcastically applauding referee Paolo Mazzoleni, while Lorenzo Insigne was also shown red for kicking Keita Baldé Diao.
Both men have been banned for two matches, but the first in particular is controversial after the Senegalese international was subjected to racist chanting for much of the match.
“Let's take the time to study what to do,” lawyer Mattia Grassani said on Radio Kiss Kiss Napoli.
“We’ll probably appeal against the two games for Insigne, while for the ban given to Koulibaly for applauding the referee, one of the reasons for the two game ban, we’ll go for an appeal.
“The regulations say the match should have been halted, and the conditions to do so were already there in the first half, and above all the referee didn’t show common sense.
“It’s not possible to deny that the match was distorted by the atmosphere, which led Koulibaly to ask the referee to intervene.
“You could hear the monkey chants, but the referee didn’t deem it appropriate to stop the game. It’s probable that a strong signal in the first half would have warned the crowd and deterred the idiots engaging in this kind of behaviour, then we’d never have got to Koulibaly’s gesture.”