After heavy debate in recent hours, the leadership of the AIA has taken a clear position on the penalty Lazio demanded against Milan last night, which referee Collu did not award. Here is what corriere.it writes:
"It was not a penalty. The final decision by referee Collu, in stoppage time of Milan vs Lazio on Saturday night at San Siro, was correct. There was no penalty for Pavlovic’s elbow touch. This is the view of the refereeing leadership, which praises the match official, whose performance is judged strong overall, and instead fully faults VAR official Di Paolo, who should not have called the referee to the monitor. He risked pushing Collu toward a wrong decision, since Collu had made the right call on the field. For this reason the VAR official will be suspended, unlike the referee."
"There is one detail to add. According to the refereeing leadership, there was no foul for Milan either. This contradicts what Collu said when he explained his decision in public: ‘The arm is out of shape, but the defender suffers a foul.’ That was not the case. The game should have restarted with a corner. No foul by either side. In short, the officials should have handled the sequence better. All of them."
