The PSG and national team goalkeeper suffered a bad cut under his right eye, which almost disfigured him. He was forced to leave the pitch dazed and injured while his opponent, who had already been booked, was pardoned by the referee.
Gianluigi Donnarumma hit with a kick in the face by Singo who, in an attempt to jump the goalkeeper after having twisted the ball, injures him in the face. The images of the episode make one’s skin crawl: the Monaco player (who wore the Torino shirt in Italy) scraped the sole of his right boot on the goalkeeper’s face, causing injuries with his cleats. And Gigio almost lost an eye, considering the injured party and the dynamics of that game clash: he was forced to leave the pitch dazed and injured due to the bad cut sustained under his right eye, which it almost disfigured him.
For that intervention Singo, already warned, was pardoned by the match director who could also have sent him off with a direct red (due to the reckless gesture) or with a warning. Instead, nothing. He remained ‘regularly’ on the pitch while Safonov came on in Donnarumma’s place. The whistle’s decision also came following the VAR check: the foul appears to have been deemed accidental.
The dynamics of Singo’s bad foul on Donnarumma
The accident happens in the 18th minute. Wilfried Singo enters the Paris Saint-Germain area and is almost close to the opponent’s goal when he misses his control and extends the ball with Donnarumma coming out. The impression is that he tried for a sort of touch underneath to beat the goalkeeper with a lob but it went badly and the consequences of the attempt, both clumsy and dangerous, to remedy the mistake were terrible for the goalkeeper. He got everything wrong, from the play to the timing of the jump to overtake Gigio. That’s when she walks in his face.
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The former Toro footballer inadvertently hits the number one of PSG and the national team with his cleats and is forgiven thanks to an inexplicable indulgence on the part of the referee in light of that very tough clash. Donnarumma leaves the pitch on his legs: his face is swollen from the trauma and he goes to the infirmary to be treated, he will receive about ten stitches to contain the wound on his right cheek.
Because the referee didn’t send Singo off despite that serious intervention
According to the rules, would Singo have deserved a red card? Yes, because what he committed was a “serious foul play” in light of the “imprudence” or “disproportionate force” due to which he endangered the opponent’s safety. He would have deserved at least a second yellow, how is it possible that the race director let it go? We can only speculate what the assessment was made by the match director who must have only accused him of “negligence” (the player shows a lack of attention or consideration in making a tackle or who acts without precaution) and in this case it is not no disciplinary action is foreseen.
Otherwise, if the match director had judged that intervention to be “imprudence” (disregard for the danger or consequences for the opponent) he would have had to draw a yellow card and for this reason he must be warned. Card that would have been red in the case of “disproportionate force” (excess in the use of necessary force, the safety of an opponent is put in danger).
