the referee messes up on the penalty, two errors in one then he gets it all wrong on the cards

After 7 direct matches in the first 15 days of Serie A two years ago, Luca Massimi, the choice for Inter-Como, was suspended in December 2023 by designator Gianluca Rocchi. Termoli’s whistle paid for several wrong decisions in the match on 10 December between Frosinone and Turin, which ended 0-0. After 5 matches refereed in Serie B, the AIA readmitted him to Serie A but Rocchi has always used him little, preferring to designate it in B. Let’s see how the Molise whistle fared yesterday at San Siro.

Massimi’s precedents with Inter and Udinese

Two precedents with the Nerazzurri, with a victory and a defeat, three with the Como team drawing two and losing one.

The referee only cautioned one player

Assisted by assistants Bresmes and Di Iorio with Colombo IV man, Ghersini to Var and Paganessi to Avarthe referee only booked Inter player Asllani, play interrupted from 41′ to 46′ of the first half due to an illness among a fan in the stands. Recovery time: 7′ – 4

Inter-Udinese, the slow-motion cases

These are the main doubtful episodes of the race. In the 5th minute, double error by the referee: Arnautovic is sent into space by Asllani, once he enters the area he returns to the left but kicks badly hitting Kabasele on the arm, the referee, despite recognizing an infringement, allows it to continue but immediately after whistles the penalty for a foul by hands. Called back to the on field review by the VAR, Massimi comes to his senses and revokes the penalty: his arm was alongside his body. First and only yellow card of the match in the 15th minute: very harsh tackle by Asllani on Karlstrom and a yellow card for the Albanian midfielder. In the 20th minute Bisseck uses strong tactics to stop Lucca, Massimi doesn’t draw a card amid protests from the Juventus players.

In the 50th minute Atta hammered Bisseck. Maxims he whistles a foul but doesn’t get a yellow card for the Udinese player. In the 51st minute another messy intervention by the Bianconeri, this time by Abankwah on Asllani right under the eyes of the referee who only verbally warns the substitute. In the 65th minute Lucca goes down in the area after a slight contact with Carlos Augusto. Massimi lets it go. After 5′ of injury time Inter-Udinese ends 2-0.

For Cesari it was right to revoke the penalty

Graziano Cesari is the one who sheds light on the dubious cases of Inter-Udinese. The Mediaset moviolista on Italia1 focuses on the penalty revoked against Inter and says: “Massimi was called back to the VAR, he reviews the images and changes his mind, removing the penalty kick. It takes very little time and cancel his decisionhe thought it was Kabasele’s left arm, very high and in an unnatural position, that needed to be punished. But it’s not that: it’s the right foot that rises and the ball disappears, evidently the body impacts the ball. Precisely for this reason, in my opinion rightly, he revised his decision.”

There is a similarity with the penalty not given to Cagliari against Atalanta for Kossounou’s touch: “That was much discussed, when Deiola put the ball in the middle there was indeed a rebound, which should not be judged, but the The Atalanta player’s arm is very high and detached from the body, in a completely unnatural way. It’s a very difficult rule, we will never understand anythingbecause the discrepancy is quite evident, after just a few days. We saw the penalty given to Inter against Lazio, with the arm very wide: there is a difference in interpretation that makes everything very difficult to understand, even for the public.”