Having attended today’s coaches meeting with the Italian referees association to discuss VAR and other matters, Inter manager Luciano Spalletti shared his thoughts and feelings.
“It was a very important meeting for future collaboration. We talked about handball, pushing in the box and offside. The debate was about how to use VAR, significant progress has been made because its use is no longer in question. Now the controversy is about it not being used, if we talk about competitions without VAR then we understand that something is missing,” he told reporters outside.
“In the games in which it is used there’s a calmness in the rest of the game, because you feel there’s no doubt about what happened previously. Before we took problems with us. We were told that it’s not good to have so many voices near the referee when they’re talking to the VAR room, so it’s clear that there will be more yellows for those who protest.
“The controversy is the opposite of what it was at first, before its presence was questioned and now we complain when it’s not used.”
He concluded the interview by knocking the idea of being given a chance to request a VAR review on the head.
“No, if we put too many things in we risk having more stoppages, which is something which actually needs to be limited.”