Thuram and Inzaghi did not hold back in their comments in the post-match of Milan-Inter: there was a clear penalty for the Nerazzurri, and it is inexplicable how VAR did not intervene . A common feeling was also felt in the Pressing studios, during the commentary of the derby incident.
Even Graziano Cesari, a former referee, tried to explain what happened, but could not find a valid justification for the lack of intervention from VAR primarily Di Paolo and assistant referee Doveri to call Chiffi to the monitor.
These were his words:
I speak from the refereeing point of view. In the VAR room there were the number one VAR expert, Di Paolo, and a highly experienced referee as AVAR, Doveri. There are two of them who need to control the situation. One checks the progression of the subsequent action, so Di Paolo doesn’t look at that contact because the action continues, the AVAR looks at the images. The images shown were broadcast immediately after Pavlovic’s intervention on Thuram. They are not very strange, they are subsequent. There isn’t even time to say there’s an interruption, there’s something that doesn’t add up. They are immediately subsequent images. I cannot justify two people so experienced.
