“Nine cards seem like a lot but they fit because the competition is lively. The rest is normal administration.” That’s how La Gazzetta dello Sport on newsstands this morning judges the performance of Bastien, the referee of Sporting Lisbon-Bologna that ended 1-1: 6 on the report card for the match director, same grade for the two assistants.
“At the beginning of the match pardoned the Portuguese Araujo: the foul intervention on Ndoye is very abrupt (even a shove), it is yellow, but the referee glosses over – we read in the moviola of the newspaper – Very severe instead the caution to Holm: Catamo looks for the opponent’s leg and as soon as he feels the contact he lets himself fall. The other cards are all legitimate. Pobega’s goal is regular: no offside. Trincao keeps the red and blue midfielder in play.”
