The fallout from Napoli 3-1 Inter Milan continues, with refereeing chiefs reportedly acknowledging major errors in the handling of the controversial penalty at the Stadio Maradona.
According to Italian media, via FCInter1908, the AIA believes it “should never have been given.”
As a result, referee Maurizio Mariani, assistant Daniele Bindoni and VAR official Marini are all expected to be sidelined in the coming weeks.
Napoli were awarded the controversial penalty in the first half, with Kevin De Bruyne converting from the spot.
Napoli doubled their lead in the second half before Inter pulled a goal back, Calhanoglu converting a penalty of his own.
However, the fightback was short lived.
Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa wrapped up the match with around 20 minutes to play.
Napoli 3-1 Inter Milan – ‘Triple Error’ In Penalty Decision
The review describes it as a “triple error,” placing responsibility in sequence: assistant, referee, then VAR.
The assistant’s intervention was judged the most damaging, as he “should never have recalled the referee for such minimal contact.”
Mariani’s choice to reverse himself was also criticised.
“From the pitch, the correct decision had to be made there and then,” the assessment states.
With the verdict clear, the episode has been labelled “a messy and avoidable incident” that overshadowed a marquee fixture.
who noticed Akanji was refusing to pass the ball to Enrique because he knows he is not good enough.
could someone tells me has Inter done anything wrong against Italian referees since Ronaldo era we have had bad officiating from Italian referees and that caused us the league last season.
The wrong thing Inter have been doing is to be “threat” to Calcio favorites Juve and Milan.
Referring tin Serie A is a Disaster. I will stop wasting my time watching this League
now you guys know why italian team sucks at UCL other than Inter, they have no refree back them up
Exactly
See? The referee is blatantly biased against Inter, and then the Italian Referees’ Association comes out to apologize and issue some token punishment just for show. In this kind of officiating environment, it’ll be extremely difficult for Inter to even earn points, let alone win! Look back the history when José Mourinho made the handcuff gesture in Italy in February 2010.
Let’s stop blaming referees or whatever, the defeat falls squarely on the players but more so Chivu. Why does he still insist on starting Mkhitaryan? It’s criminal to have Sucic and Frattesi on the bench. Acerbi also needs to be a backup, not a starter.
Acerbi is past his prime and we should immediately get a new center back in January or use bisseck in center, we have issues in the team that gets exposed everytime we play against quality opponents, but as soon as we play mediocre teams and win 6 games in a role we forget about the flaws we have in the team and start dreaming of scudetto again unfortunately
true speech
on that note… gilmour should have got a yellow for stud showing tackle on hakan and then a second yellow for the shirt pull. a red was missed too!
Twice against Juve and Napoli when both the logical thing to do wasn’t done. Like do they decide to play dumb only if it’s Inter playing their rivals ? The penalty shifted the entire match even tho in the second half the subs did more damage than both Anguissa and McTominay it has to be said. A great lesson for Chivu tho because he should know by now taking off his best players in big matches is shooting yourself in the foot. Barella, Hakan and Dumfries are big personality players that will give you a goal because other than Frattesi none of Sucic, Henrique, Pio can do anything to influence the match thats as tense that.
And why are there so many who are clamoring for Frattesi and Zielinski to play, like they can change anything? 0 help in defense, 0 presence in midfield, only to pass the ball from side to side or back to cb. When they enter the only thing they accomplish is that we have one less player in defensive play. They maybe have 1 ok game on every 10 played, but that’s just horrible contribution, we need players who can deliver constantly, a couple of bad games can happen to anyone, but on rest of them you must deliver.
I get what you’re saying but a few days you’ll realise that Inter are playing with 10 men most of the matches and it’s just opponents are not good enough to realise it and its not Frattesi, Biseck or anyone else but Acerbi. At this point it’s Chivu’s fault if he continues to play him especially against fast players.Inter might finish the season with 10+ losses if other teams figure this out it’s actually scary the guy should be retired by now yet he’s somehow Inter’s go to CB. Frattessi will give you a goal and he’s not good in defence especially in 1 vs 1 but he will score and goals win matches but again he’s not Inter’s problem but rather the relegation level defending from ACERBI regardless of how people criticise Sommer it’s Acerbi who plays like he pulled a muscle strain and just needs the match to be over.
I was saying even before mercato that we need to get rid of oldtimers, they can contribute sometimes, but if we want to contend for trophies, both Italian and in Europe we can’t have many of them. None of defensive players are able to compete against much younger, faster players. Before they could with good positioning and good reading of situation, but right now are far too damn slow to catch up to anyone. Right now football is much more demanding on physicality and speed, there aren’t many playmakers nowadays, so faster defense is needed. As for Frattesi and Zielinski unless we change formation to 4-2-3-1 or something similar with AM, they are unplayable on CM or DM position, they are just liability and occupying space in team with considerable wages. They contribute absolutely nothing.
These wrong decisions are made far too many times and often they are critical to the results of the game.