Torino-Juve, De Ligt and the penalty denied. Cairo: "There were, used two weights and two measures"

TORINO – A uniform is not enough, that of the referee. Rather it would need uniformity. A penalty awarded to Lecce, last Saturday, against Juventus. One given yesterday at the Olympic, hand of Callejon, in Rome-Naples. The referee Rocchi does not see, the Var calls, penalty. Copy and paste. Then decide how you like it. This is what happens yesterday evening, the "Grande Torino" stadium, minute 11, the Dutchman's usual habit: he touches the area with one arm, the referee Doveri flies over, the Var decides that it can go like this, no penalty. But then Maurizio Sarri will also admit it, a few minutes before the meeting and congratulations to his colleague Mazzarri. The Juve coach admits: "De Ligt found himself with the hand in the wrong place at the wrong time."

A case in which also Urbano Cairo, president of Turin, intervenes: "In my opinion the rigor was there. For the same episode, in Lecce, the penalty against Juventus was booed ». And again, on the episodes: «And the foul whistled in the final, to Lukic, also amazes me. Or that no provision has been made for that bad entry on Belotti. I believe two weights and two measures have been used: just to give an example, I think of the warning to Baselli because he pushed the ball away, but not to Szczesny who did the same thing. However the proof of Toro's character was there, that's what we wanted ".

Captain Belotti reiterates: "I had hit my head when I turned around, I saw that De Ligt had taken it with his arm clearly. Sorry, less striking penalties were called in high games ». Even Antonio Comi, general manager, attacks: "What we want to understand is the episode of rigor, which they gave in Lecce and not here". It remains a mystery, the color of the referees' uniform in search of an at least uniform judgment.