The match between Sweden e Ukraine won by the team of Shevchenko closed the round of 16 of the European football championships. The match played in Glasgow had a hint of blue on the pitch, the referee Daniele Orsato ended up in the storm for the episode that partially changed the race: the very hard entry of Danielson its Bjesedin who saw the Italian whistle in difficulty with the choice of the card, so much so that the intervention of the Var was required to expel the Swede. A decision that, however, has aroused several criticisms with a great ex of football like Gary Lineker that he was not tender with Orsato while the former referee Luca Marelli, as usual, he analyzed the episode on his social channels.
Expulsion Danielson, Orsato saved by the Var
During the first overtime of the eighth-final of Euro 2020 between Sweden and Ukraine, at 98 ′ minute, hard, very hard intervention by Marcus Danielson on Artem Bjesjedin: the Swedish defender enters the ball with a straight leg and after hitting it ends up on the left knee of the Ukrainian striker, effectively with a hammer foot. Bjesjedin remains on the ground in pain.
At first, Orsato warns Danielson. But he is immediately called to the VAR, where, moreover, there was an all-Italian referee team from Radio to Di Bello, Meli and Valeri. Seeing the episode at the replay, Orsato changed the color of the card from yellow to red, expelling the Swedish player.
Lineker against Orsato: “Ridiculous expulsion”
Danielson’s entry seemed to everyone to be broken, apart from the fact that the Swede was willing to take the ball. So the decision, although wrong at the beginning and changed in the course of work, by Orsato, seemed to everyone to be right. Yet there are those who do not think so. In fact, the former England footballer, next opponent of Ukraine, Gary Lineker harshly criticized Orsato and his decision with one of his poison tweets.
“This is not a red card – wrote the former England striker on Twitter – he is perfectly entitled to look for that ball. Slow motion once again makes it seem more harmless than it is. Ridiculous”.
Marelli acquits Orsato and takes it out on Lineker: “Ridiculous Tweet”
Already last night, in European nights on Rai 1, the former referee Tiziano Pieri in commenting on the episode he had defended the choices of the Italian referee team, however defending Orsato on the error of the first yellow card converted into red only with the help of the Var: “It is not easy to always be in perfect position with respect to the action, here it is not he was well positioned, ok but we can’t say that the final decision is wrong ”.
In the usual post-match morning briefing, the other former referee Luca Marelli on his social media channels he resumed the episode by beating the comment of those like Lineker who still speak of Danielson’s intervention on the ball. “One cannot think that a person who has millions of users who follow him on the net thinks and writes such a thing. Here of ridicule, as he writes, there is only this tweet. The regulation must be known, the fact that a player enters the ball is not even mentioned on the regulation. So if he catches the ball and then breaks his opponent’s leg, isn’t that a fault? “
“Orsato not in condition” Marelli finds the gaps
However, Luca Marelli wanted to make a note to Orsato anyway. “He doesn’t seem to me in great physical condition in this European Championship, I already said at the beginning – the former referee points out – he doesn’t move much, during the match he also suffered from cramps and he was playing in Scotland and there was no particular heat. Then of course it is Orsato, the best referee around and he manages to cover everything with his great experience ”.
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Gary Lineker made the most ridicolous tweet ; it was an evident red card and we have seen the consequences . It was an horrible tackle and direct red card . Lineker stupid tweet !