Fiorentina vice-President Gino Salica hits out at Juventus after the controversial VAR incident on Friday – “only certain teams are allowed to protest like that”.
The Viola were given a penalty for a handball by Giorgio Chiellini, which was fiercely protested by Miralem Pjanic.
While Jordan Veretout was waiting to take the kick, the officials consulted the replay and, after three minutes, decided that there had been an offside in the build-up.
Fiorentina vice-President Gino Salica hits out at Juventus after the controversial VAR incident on Friday – “only certain teams are allowed to protest like that”.
The Viola were given a penalty for a handball by Giorgio Chiellini, which was fiercely protested by Miralem Pjanic.
While Jordan Veretout was waiting to take the kick, the officials consulted the replay and, after three minutes, decided that there had been an offside in the build-up.
“It’s unacceptable that only certain teams are allowed to protest like that,” Salica fumed, as quoted by calciomercato.com.
“We talk every day about a lack of credibility in Italian football, the fact we didn’t qualify for the World Cup, the Lega and the FIGC being under commissionership, and then if we put these incidents in too I think it’s really tough.
“All of Italy saw what happened. We at Fiorentina wondered: why do they allow this.
“We debated the question of what to do against Juventus for a long time. We probably would have been comfortable making a big scene and stigmatising the behaviour of the Juventus players toward the referee on the occasion of the first penalty awarded to Juventus for the Chiellini handball.
“We thought about it and decided to follow another course.
“The game was already lost, and maybe the fans will have the impression that the club is absent, that we don’t care much about these things, but we decided to intervene differently.
“With President [Mario] Cognini we’re studying how to bring what is a profound discomfort to the right levels.”