From Mourinho to Spalletti, the Seria A coaches rebel against the referees

Of the six expulsions registered in the just finished day of the A league Italian, four were received by technicians. Portuguese José Mourinho, Luciano Spalletti, Simone Inzaghi and Gian Piero Gasperini they saw the red one for protesting to the collegiate, against whom the controversies are increasing every time.

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Perhaps even more significant than football, with the Milan that reached the Naples in command of the classification, it was the controversies who took center stage in a day marked by doubtful decisions and complaints that demonstrated a serious communication problem between coaches and referees.

“Let them go on television to explain their decisions”

“Let them show their faces and go on television to explain their decisions,” was the categorical complaint on Italian television from an enraged Gasperini, technician of the Atalanta, after being sent off in the match tied 1-1 by his team against him Udinese.

They followed Mourinho and Spalletti, both expelled in the Rome-Naples by the collegiate Davide Massa, until the red seen in the so-called ‘Derby of Italy’ by the technician of the Inter de Milan, Simone Inzaghi, after receiving the 1-1 of the Juventus in 89, signed from a penalty by the Argentine Paulo Dybala.

The A league from 2019-2020 approved the introduction of cards also for coaches and technical bodies and also created the figure of the arbitration “mediator”, a former collegiate with a great international career in charge of streamlining relations with the clubs.

This is the classification of Serie A.

If in the first months this decision seemed to pay dividends, the last weeks have seen the problems increase vertically.

It spread in Italy a general lack of confidence in the decisions of the referees, also because of rules that, according to the technicians and managers, are not always applied consistently.

It was the case of the penalty awarded, after reviewing the video in the field by the referee, the Juventus in the San Siro match against him Inter, that Dybala transformed to tie 1-1.

At first, the referee saw a contact between a foot of Dumfries and Alex Sandro but he decided not to whistle the penalty as he did not consider it sufficient to determine a foul. The VAR detected a possible error and ordered the referee to go and review it on the screen located at the foot of the field, until he decided to award the maximum penalty.

Inzaghi threw a shirt onto the field

Simone Inzaghi He became enraged and threw a jersey on the field, which caused him to be sent off.

At the end of the meeting, the controversies were opened because, according to the Inter and part of the criticism, the first decision of the referee, that is, a “no penalty”, did not represent a “clear and evident error”, as required by the rule of use of the VAR.

Different was the case of Mourinho and Spalletti at Rome-Naples, both expelled for protesting the referee.

Mourinho, sent off ten minutes from the end, defended himself by ensuring that he protested with his technical collaborators and not directly to the referee.

Spalletti, who saw the red when the match was over, was punished because Pulp he interpreted his final applause as if it were ironic, something that the Italian manager denied.

“I told him I had failed a few things, but …”

“I went to fire Massa and told him that he had failed a couple of things, but that, despite that, it was good. He connected the two and expelled me,” he lamented Spalletti.

The images seem to confirm the version of Spalletti and they demonstrate the tension that exists between technicians and collegiate staff.

The common wish of Italian coaches is that the referees appear on television at the end of the matches to explain their decisions.

Last year, RAI public television made history in Italy when getting invite Daniele Orsato in one of his sports programs to review some of his decisions.

However, for the moment, this type of intervention has not been repeated on a regular basis.