The story of the episode and the motivation for the referee’s choice
Just before the quarter of an hour Monza-Fiorentina an refereeing episode: escape of Thin on the left, the number 7 enters the area and manages, before Pablo Marì’s intervention, to throw it low back. Then, in the jump, he collides with the body of the defender who in the meantime was sliding towards the bottom and falls. At first the referee Dionisi indicates a penalty kick, but the Spaniard protests.
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“He hit me on the back,” says Marì, who indeed intervenes on a portion of the pitch not occupied by Sottilonly to shield a possible cross towards the goal, and the contact, of a very slight nature (the winger was going fast, falls almost out of momentum without simulating in any way) and not direct, was not punishable. Dionisi is called back to the monitor, reviews the intervention and opts for the cancellation of the penalty kick initially awarded. Not a very clear decision, but explained in this way on live TV on Sky.
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