Gianluca Rocchi responds to Lazio: «Davis’ goal is good: if anyone doesn’t believe in our good faith, I’ll leave tomorrow morning»

Tuesday 30th December 2025 11:32 AM

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Designer Can intervenes regarding the controversy over Udinese’s equalizer: «You can’t cancel a goal like that, it’s a rule that needs to be clarified»

Gianluca Rocchi, Can designator (National Referees Commission), replies to Lazio regarding the controversy over Udinese’s equalizing goal scored by Keinan Davis in full injury time in the last round of the championship. “I’ve always said it to everyone without any problems and I repeat it: if someone doesn’t believe in our good faith, I’ll leave tomorrow morning.”

Rocchi: «Davis’ goal is good»

Rocchi’s words were reported by Open Var, a format of Dazn, Figc, Aia with the collaboration of the Lega Serie A exclusively on Dazn every Tuesday afternoon. “Our goal – he continues – is to make as few mistakes as possible, then we make some, and if you were with me for a few weekends you would see how pissed off I get.” For Rocchi, Davis’ goal «is good: I say this as a person who likes football. You can’t cancel goals like this, especially when someone touches the ball with a closed arm or in any case in a totally fortuitous way like this. Here as a referee I say that it is a rule that certainly needs to be clarified and I take responsibility for it, because then we have to give people answers that are as objective as possible. It’s clear that at the moment this adverb ‘immediately’ puts us in a bit of difficulty and today I can’t tell the kids that they made a mistake, because if I go and look, in this case there isn’t any immediacy. The player recovers the ball with a touch of the hand, yes, but he does four dribbles in front of him, so if you ask me if there is immediacy, this can never be. At the same time I say, very sincerely, that if I have to understand from the outside, and I’m not a referee, what the correct decision is, I struggle.”

Lazio’s protest against the Lega Serie A

Lazio had protested with a letter to the Lega Serie A: «NIt’s no more tolerable than thatduring this championship, we continue to witness the recurrence of refereeing episodes and inconsistent VAR assessmentsheterogeneous and decisive, which are producing a evident sporting prejudice to the detriment of SS Lazioat the same time undermining the credibility of the entire system and generating significant economic damage.”

December 30, 2025