Massa manages the cards as a rookie: two yellows missing for Lukaku, one for Cristante and Celik

Napoli-Roma ends 1-0 for Antonio Conte and Lukaku. One strike from him was enough to resolve the match and bring Napoli back to the top of the table, even in a match managed without great spectacularity but “controlled” in a certain sense from the start to the 75th minute. Roma did little, even making a mistake in their strategy upon returning to the field in the second half, putting themselves at 5 men and right there, in the lack of habit of the climbs compared to the first half, they lost Di Lorenzo and then Lukaku (Hummels himself, who had come on ten minutes earlier). . However, some on social media and beyond complain about Massa’s refereeing and the lack of warning to Lukaku (the first is certainly there, there is some doubt about the second in the opinion of the writer, ed.). Corriere dello Sport talks about it below.

Massa: timecard management reviewable?

“One looks at the roster (210 matches in Serie A, 55 in Serie B, 19 in the Champions League, 16 in the Europa League and 3 in the Conference, plus thirty or so with the national teams) and you think that he is a referee up to par: mediocre, however, really by virtue of his curriculum, Massa’s refereeing yesterday at Maradona. Disciplining as a rookie, cards given (and not given) without logic […]

Set the score at 1-0: there is no foul by Lukaku against Svilar, on Di Lorenzo’s cross, the Italian attacker touches the ball with his left foot before the inevitable contact with the Roma goalkeeper. Lukaku is at great risk, two yellow interventions. The first against Celik, the leg is high and tense, the contact is not full but glancing (otherwise it would have been red), but the yellow is missing, the proof is in the rebuke the referee gives the Belgian. The other when he enters with his foot on Svilar’s chest, again without sinking, but the intervention is imprudent, coded yellow”.

As mentioned, insufficient: for everyone, a very clear yellow is missing from Celik (directed at Di Lorenzo) and Cristante, who trips (it doesn’t matter if it is involuntary) Di Lorenzo on a solitary restart. And afterwards he was also warned.

Mass: vote 5
Var Paterna: voto 6″

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