Lazio asks to eliminate VAR after Douglas Luiz’s unreviewed punch to Patric

The Italian Angelo Fabiano, sporting director of Lazio, He asked after the match against Juventus Turin for the abolition of the VAR after a clear attack by the Brazilian Douglas Luiz on the Spanish Patric a few minutes before the winning goal for ‘Juve’ (1-0) was not reviewed.

In one match he did intervene to expel Romagnoli andIn the 25th minute and leaving Lazio with one man less, the VAR did not call the referee to assess an attack by Douglas Luiz on Patric without the ball in the middle, with an unjustified punch in the back.

An action that made Lazio very angrywho called for the abolition of VAR after the match.

“I would like to know what this VAR is for. Let’s make a petition to abolish it because it is doing incalculable damage this season, not only to Lazio,” Fabiani told Sky Sport Italia microphones.

“Douglas Luiz, just before the goal, told him He punched Patric but the VAR did not intervene and the images are there. Douglas himself makes a harsh tackle on Rovella and again does not intervene. But he does do it in the episode of Romagnoli’s expulsion where the referee had seen it clearly from the field,” the sports director protested.

Fabiani freed the field referee from all blame because he considered it a difficult play to see with the ball in play.

“Douglas’ thing is a punch, it’s violent behaviorI don’t understand why it’s not sanctioned. We feel hesitated. The referee in this circumstance has nothing to do with it, he played a great game. It is in the VAR room where they have to explain to me what they value. “Why isn’t Douglas sanctioned?” he pointed out.

But he did ask for a sanction for the VAR referees: “If I make a mistake in a transfer market, my president kicks me out. Then They should sanction these gentlemen who decide from there. “They should take two months off.”

It is the second consecutive day in which the VAR and referee decisions are protagonists in Italy. In the previous one, which was played just before the national team break, Both Roma and Milan protested the refereeing actions.

Milan’s coach, the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca, He described a match against Fiorentina as a “circus” in which three penalties were awarded: “Any contact in the area is now a penalty,” he said.

And the Frenchman Florent Ghisolfi, sporting director of Roma, protested forcefully after the duel against Monza because the VAR did not review a resounding penalty on Tommaso Baldanzi.