There is a glaring refereeing error in Milan-Lazio’s sending off of Pavlovic: confirmation comes from the Giudice Sportivo (sports judge)
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Milan is a disaster from a technical and tactical point of view, but it must be said that throughout this season it has also often been disadvantaged by refereeing decisions. Recently we have seen choices that are difficult to explain in the recovery against Bologna, with the Rossoblu scoring after an obvious hand touch first and with the ball leaving the field later. Absurd also what happened in Empoli a few weeks ago. Strange decisions also by Manganiello in Milan-Lazio: the penalty for Maignan’s foul on Isaksen at the last gasp may fit, although we are talking about a very generous penalty, but the real glaring mistake is the expulsion of Pavlovic.
In recent days, in fact, the moviole had spoken of a red following a violent foul play: an explanation that, while exaggerated, might have been part of a correct view. But in fact it was not: Pavlovic was sent off, and thus disqualified for a turn, for another reason. And so it is thus that one can speak of a glaring error, yet another against Milan this fateful season.
Milan-Lazio, espulsione Pavlovic: che errore!
As we can read in the official communiqué of the Giudice Sportivo, the Serbian defender was sent off “for having committed a foul intervention on an opponent in possession of a clear goal opportunity.” And this changes things completely: if the violent foul might have been acceptable, the idea that that game situation might have been assessed as DOGSO does not fit for any reason in the world.
Espulsione Pavlovic, clamoroso errore (ANSA) – MilanLive.it
To eject a player for DOGSO, and thus for clear interrupted goal opportunity, there must be a number of conditions to evaluate: distance from the goal, direction of the action, and possibility of intervention by other defenders. And in Pavlovic’s foul on Isaksen there is none of these situations. Especially surprising is the non-intervention of VAR: we were told that in Empoli, for the ejection of Tomori in an action with obvious offside, it could not do so, just as it could not do so in Bologna for the blatant hand foul in the action of Castro’s goal. In this case, on the other hand, VAR could absolutely intervene to let the referee-in-chief know that no, he could not eject Pavlovic for DOGSO, but again the Lissone center did not do so despite the fact that there were all the extremes.
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