“Don’t leave, wait”. It seems that Luigi Nasca, VAR of Spezia-Lazio, tried. The voice is too weak, or perhaps a communication error. The fact is that Luca Pairetto he did not wait, he went on his way and validated Francesco Acerbi’s offside goal – more than obvious -. Both will remain stationary until the end of the seasonunlike the linesman: the signal that, more than the undeniable error, weighs the communication defect between the referee of the field and the monitor referee.
Quer ugly mess. The umpteenth controversy that the AIA would have done without, such as to call into question the usefulness of the technology: if the VAR does not serve to avoid a clear error and we add coarse like this, what is the use? Belly question, reason pushes elsewhere. But some corrections, beyond the explanations that Rocchi will give at the end of the season, when he could make the audio of the conversation public – unlike what happened in other “hot” episodes in the past – becomes necessary.
Going back is not possible, going forward yes.. The error remains, of such a size as to even lead to one controversy between Lazio and Rome, does not take part in the dispute directly but with Mourinho to take on a scene that is not really his own. The best intervention, that of Philip Raymond Platek Jr, president of La Spezia: “A serious and unacceptable mistake, even if we cannot go back in time”. Exactly, however, we can and must go on: understand what went wrong and why. And above all to push on communication: in other situations, admitting the error immediately has at least defused the controversy. Clarifying immediately, without waiting for the end of the internship, in a context of more reactive and proactive decisions than in the past, would help.
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