Three days after the match at the Maradona, just a few moments ago Dazn shared the much-awaited Bordocam of Napoli-Inter. The cameras of the broadcaster that aired the match actually captured some conversations from the field, including those of the refereeing team on the occasion of the penalty kick first signaled by assistant Bindoni and then whistled late by Mariani.
This is the reconstruction: “The first striking episode of the match comes in the 29th minute. Napoli builds an action on the right. Chivu senses the danger and shouts ‘Get out!’ from the bench! Conte, on the other hand, immediately asks for the penalty after the contact on Di Lorenzo. Barella, running, hears the whistle. Instinctively he says no, but he knows very well what it is about. He still asks, what? Conte instead: ‘It’s a penalty.’ He also tells De Bruyne. ‘It’s a penalty. Let’s go.’”
At the referee’s decision, the reaction from the Inter bench was immediate: “Chivu can’t believe it, he has his hands on his face. Then he laughs, ironically. Near the referee, Inter players ask for clarification. Acerbi to Spinazzola: ‘Where’s the penalty? Where?’ Spinazzola: ‘On Giovanni.’ From the bench, Conte sees the Inter players around the referee. So he tells his men: ‘It’s a penalty. Let’s go there.’ Meanwhile, Mkhitaryan has sat down on the ground in the middle of the field. Dimarco makes a very clear gesture to him: ‘Injured?’ The Armenian felt a pull right at the moment immediately after the contact with Di Lorenzo. He’ll have to come off. On the field, it quickly becomes clear that the assistant signaled the penalty to Mariani. So the fourth official Ayroldi is explaining it to the Inter bench. Chivu: ‘But is he going to VAR?’ Mariani, meanwhile, is on the field, talking about the same thing, and tells the Inter players several times: ‘There are four of us,’ meaning the refereeing team.”
Finally, further protests from the players on the field: “So Bastoni leaves the group and goes to the assistant to ask for further explanations. Back on the bench, Ayroldi to Kolarov: ‘It can happen that an assistant calls it, it’s just that they didn’t hear.’ Near the referee, the dialogue continues. Barella arrives, saying: ‘He touches him when he’s on the ground.’ And then: ‘You didn’t whistle it.’ And Mariani again: ‘But there are four of us.’ Then the referee explains to Lautaro: ‘It’s Mkhitaryan who commits the foul.’ Because the perception on the field of some Inter players is that Mariani had whistled the last contact, the one by Acerbi. Then Barella talks to Di Lorenzo: ‘You did this.’ Mariani ends the arguments with Lautaro: ‘Enough, Lautaro, don’t get a yellow card like that.’”
