Hands of Medel, Turin lacks a penalty. Mihajlovic: “Referee’s gift”

The episode at 27 ‘, when Skorupski passes the ball to the Chilean who collects it with his hands in his own area. Juric: “The fourth official told me: ‘don’t you take a penalty like this?’ …”

by our correspondent Mario Pagliara

6 march
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A sensational naivety that could cost Bologna dearly and reward Turin with the first penalty of the season. Which in terms of regulation was there but was not granted. The episode occurs in the 27th minute of the first half, when he has to resume the game with a postponement from the back. Skorupski has the ball at his feet. Medel seems to ask him to take care of the joke. When the ball is stationary on the ground, the goalkeeper passes it to him with a touch, but in fact resuming the game. When Medel picks it up with his hands to fix it for the drop-out he commits a hand foul. Referee Massimi was talking to a player and probably didn’t see the dynamics, but the Var could-should have called him back.

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Sunday’s yellow whether the ball had been put back into play or not by Skorupsky’s touch was resolved by the two coaches, Sinisa Mihajlovic and Ivan Juric, in the post-match press conference. “The referee refereed badly throughout the match but in this episode he gave us a gift: if he had applied the regulation, it was clearly a penalty against us”, commented Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic first.

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A few minutes later Ivan Juric arrives who, smiling, comments: “Yes, it was a penalty. They did bullshit and they had to pay for it. The fourth man also came to me and said: ‘Don’t you take a penalty like this? ‘. Of course I’ll take it, but if they booed it. “

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