According to Il Corriere dello Sport and Il Corriere della Sera, VAR referee Davide Massa repeatedly told Marco Guida that Andrea Ranocchia ‘touched the ball before Andrea Belotti’s foot’ so the match official didn’t even have an on-field review.
Massa and Guida hit the headlines after a missed penalty call for the Granata in their home game against Inter on Sunday night. The Granata were 1-0 up when Ranocchia clearly fouled Belotti inside the Nerazzurri’s box, but the challenge didn’t lead to a penalty kick for Ivan Juric’s men.
Guida and Massa briefly spoke while the VAR referee was watching the challenge on his screen. Somehow, he didn’t tell Guida to have an on-field review because, according to Il Corriere dello Sport and Il Corriere della Sera, he repeated for three times that Ranocchia had touched the ball before Belotti’s foot.
Torino director Davide Vagnati and coach Juric were furious at the end of the game and so was AIA designator Gianluca Rocchi. According to multiple reports in Italy, Massa and Guida will be suspended for at least three games.
Gli audio di Guida e Massa in Torino-Inter: «Palla e poi piede», ecco che cosa si sono detti arbitro e Var https://t.co/VIwk4jZ6vb
— informazione sport (@infoitsport) March 15, 2022
Apparently, you dont have to have brains to officiate a serie A Match. I cant find a word to describe how poor they are.
This has to go down as the biggest match fixing episode so far. How can he say the complete opposite of what happened
Match fixing at its best.
Follow the money trail
“he repeated for three times that Ranocchia had touched the ball before Belotti’s foot.”
Disgusting.
I wonder when the statute of limitation on this thing sets in? LOL
the problem is consistency and different countries interpreting the rules differently..if it wasn’t called because Ranocchia touched the ball first then why was Sanchez given yellow then red against Liverfool when Sanchez not only touched the ball first but beat his opponent to the ball and even won the ball decisively but caught his opponent on the foot in the follow through? unacceptable
in the super cup, DeSciglio touched the ball first then Dzecko body checked DeSciglio off the ball then took his dive and given a penalty kick…how was that allowed?
Look at the replay many time and even in slow motion. You will see that the ref was right. The defender touched the ball, before Belotti went for his swan dive. I would have carded Belotti for simulation. VAR was right on this mate. Anyone can see that the ball was touched before the Italian prima donna’s swan dive and fake.
Is Belotti the guy that went down in agonising pain at the Euros but 5 secs later when Italy scored, he jumped straight up to celebrate with the others? That was him right? Stand up guy.
(Still looked like a pen to me though)
Hilarious seeing fans of juve and Milan specifically having the nerve to talk. Empoli was denied not 1 but TWO penalties against juve last week. Fiorentina were denied a penalty against juve after a Danilo handball. Udinese were denied a penalty after a foul by Bernardeschi. So even juve benefited from refs this season.
As for Milan: they were gifted 6 points against Roma. At Olimpico, Kjaer fouled Pellegrini. No pk awarded. At San Siro, Tonali fouled Zaniolo. No pk awarded. Against Napoli, Tomori fouled Osimhen, no pk awarded. Against Venezia, Florenzi fouled Henry, no pk awarded. 12 gifted points at least, yet you complain…
Same ref and VAR cost Inter 3 points in the Milan derby in a match that would have finished off the title race in Inter’s favour. Let’s not forget…so that 1 point at Torino doesn’t equal the derby robbery which cost Inter 3 points and were gifted to Milan.
People seem to have forgotten about Dzeko and De Sciglio. Even some staunch Interisti have admitted that it was a penalty all day long. Not that I like Juventus, but hopefully they can do the job at home and good luck with Inter controlling the VAR against Agnelli in Turin.
juventini taking about match fixing, remember last season’s 90th minute Cuadrado dive against Inter which won you the game and effectively CL qualification. Then referee Calvarese retired and opened a business. Just saying.
Juventini whining and crying haha. The club that won a Scudetto in 98 after a blatant robbery (Ronaldo-Iuliano), the club that won the 2012 Scudetto after the infamous Muntari goal, the club that stole a Scudetto in 2018 from Napoli after Orsato failed to send off Pjanic in Inter v juve, the club that stole a Scudetto from Inter in 19-20 after winning 9 points thanks to thefts against Genoa, Bologna and Atalanta. I can go on…
We have a clown (1 person using 2 usernames) on a mission here (Francesco and Antonio). Stop humiliating your club and your fan base fool. You can’t even sell being two different persons right.
@ R. Bonora
And here’s a troll too …
@ AP
That was Immobile.
‘Touching the ball first’ doesn’t mean ‘no foul’. The follow through matters.
If touching the ball first doesn’t mean no foul then not touching the ball first also doesn’t mean a foul as well. How many times we have seen a clear dive given a penalty just because there is contact. The funny thing is Juve fans are actually the one talking when it’s Juve who have been benefiting in KEY matches for refs favours. As for Milan they’re so desperate to win the league knowing full well they’ll collapse in the last five matches that they know any slip up for direct opponents means everything to them.
@Milan Fan, but you are part of the clown world as well pretending to be a Milan fan when you are actually a covert Juve fan.
@Milan fan
That is all you have, personal insults because you are 0, empty. Clueless about football. Can’t debate yet call others clowns, no bigger clown that you in reality.
The gross incompetence of refs in seria a, resulting in various fanbases calling out each other post every matchday is just a hilarious situation to watch. I don’t think there’s any bias or an agenda against a specific team, the refs are just poor at their job.
Really amusing to see inter fans defending theirselves. You and your club really comply each other.