The refereeing mistakes of France-Italy Under 21 European Championship. Uefa, Var and Goal technology from the quarterfinals? – Corriere.it

Controversy has flared up over the unfortunate refereeing of the Under 21 European Championships in Italy’s opening match, lost 2-1 against France on Thursday 22 June. A tournament that is being played these days in Romania and Georgia and that it is played without Var and without goal line technology
. And the results were immediately seen. Unfortunately in the worst way for the Azzurrini, penalized on at least three occasions, the last of which was truly sensational. After the disaster, UEFA could remedy it, in fact it is evaluating the possibility of introducing VAR and technology on ghost goals starting from the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Let’s rewind the tape, three sensational mistakes: the first against Italy arrived at 1-1: following a corner from Tonali, the ball is headed by Rovella and then ends up on the arm of the Milan defender, Kalulu, who increases the volume of the body. But the Dutch referee Lindhout he did not award the penalty and let it go amid protests from the Azzurrini. Lots of doubts too on France’s 2-1 goal signed by Barcola: before Udogie’s glaring mistake, Okoli well in advance on the midfield line, Gouiri tries to intervene on the ball, stretches his leg in a disorganized way and takes the Atalanta defender full on the foot as well as the ball. Again no whistle and doubling of the Blues. Over here? machine The most sensational mistake occurs in full stoppage time: header by Bellanova, the ball touches the inside post and from the fairly clear images it enters the line before Lukeba’s intervention, who seems to help himself with an arm to repel it.

The referee, and the third time, also on this occasion allowed the game to continue. Unleashing the wrath of coach Paolo Nicolato: I find it hard to talk about the match, it’s not possible to see these refereeings and I have the impression that the episodes have recorded too much. The management of saw unlucky, even though we lost with a great team. Now head to Switzerland? We have to resolve the group now in the next two games, in a very difficult group. Go on. We played a good game, we can do even more but we were facing a top team. We have not capitalized on the opportunities we had and the episodes counted a lot. We deserved something more, he said she.