The performance of yesterday’s referee, Maurizio Mariani, was not without any doubts. Udinese’s penalty was not clear, there could have been a penalty for Inter when Miranda was brought down and the 5 minute extra time should have been longer. La Gazzetta dello Sport uses video review in an attempt to clarify where Mariani was right and wrong: “The key situation of yesterday’s game was in the 12th minute of the second half, when the score was 1-1. Widmer tries to cross the ball from the right and on its way, the ball touches the hand of Davide Santon. At first, the ruling is that the ball passed the line and Inter is assigned a goal kick. After three minutes and with the help from VAR, Mariani decides it should be a penalty. A penalty that gives Udinese a 2-1 lead after De Paul scores. Besides the doubt of whether the ball on Santon’s hand should be a penalty or not, there was also the question if the ball passed the line before the cross. After that there was an appeal from Inter when Widmer brought Miranda down, but in this case the referee decided not to use VAR, a questionable decision”.
Source: gazzetta.it
that what i saw, the ball is out of the field…
anyway, c’est la vie, and inter used to live with it.
blame my poor vision, but imo the ball had crossed the line first, that’s why it made everybody loosing a bit down, especially santon when he thought maybe the ball absolutely out.
GDS says Pk was there, no doubts .
No doubts Santon caused the pk with his crazy handball , but I still have a huge technical doubt :
How can you technically call a pk for a handball happening AFTER the ball “went out” or the ref called it so anyways ?
It doesn’t matter if “Santon hand ball happens during the whistle ,or even after ,and he couldn’t hear it so the game had not really stopped and the ball didn’t really go out “…
YOU as a referee called the ball out , so , at that point Santon could have grabbed the ball with both hands ,causing no pk ,because the game was dead at that point .
I think this was a “glitch ” in the use of the VAR technology.
Or simply a technical mistake, a wrong use of the technology to correct a ball.. not really going out ,not to determine a pk as it should be.
The ref had no doubt on the pk ,but used the VAR ONLY to determine if a ball went out or not ,which is not what VAR is there for.