Daniele De Rossi he spoke in the press conference after the defeat against Roma and regarding the penalty not awarded to Genoa for Svilar’s foul on Ostigard he expressed himself like this: “Let’s not say what the referee told me, it wouldn’t make a good impression. But not so much him, but who should have seen. The problem is not the episode itself, but the explanations: similar episodes, imaginative explanations. I was the first to be happy with the VAR, there’s no more credibility like that. A punch in the face is a punch in the face, the rest is all super bullshit.”
The Grifone coach continued: “For example, what happened with Lazio is the opposite of what they told us a thousand times. More clarity would be needed, but instead there is always the comma, the comma and the detail.”
Roma-Genoa, clear penalty not awarded to Ostigard
Few doubts about the episode that saw Genoa and Ostigard as protagonists. Svilar comes out late, doesn’t intercept the ball and ends up hitting the defender in the face with his right hand, overwhelming him immediately afterwards. Referee Di Bello lets it go, but what is most controversial is the failure of VAR to intervene.
VAR to the referee on the penalty not given for Svilar’s slap: “Explain it to him”. But it’s all wrong
The action had all the elements for a penalty kick: if instead of the goalkeeper’s hand there had been a defender’s foot, the decision would have come without hesitation.
De Rossi and the analysis of Genoa’s performance
For Daniele De Rossi it was not an evening like the others. He greeted the Roma fans after the match and his former players watched him from the pitch: a truly emotional moment at the Olympic stadium between chants and greetings before returning to the changing rooms.
DDR, however, did not fully enjoy the moment and confessed it again during the press conference: “If we are these we will save ourselves – said De Rossi in reference to the match against Atalanta -. But it pisses me off a lot to enter the pitch like this, I’m sorry for having gone under the South with a dark face, it’s eating away at my ass… (verbatim, ed.). With Atalanta’s attitude, with this team here, even without a transfer, I’ll save myself. Then we’ll see, but we’re fourth last, we must be possessed.”
