Ravanelli: Napoli penalty ‘was invented by the referee and VAR’
Former Juventus attacker Fabrizio Ravanelli called the referee’s decision to award a penalty to Napoli against Juventus ‘scandalous’.
managed to beat
Juventusat the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona thanks to a first-half penalty by
Lorenzo Insigne
.
Match official
Daniele Doveri
decided to blow in his whistle for a penalty kick following
Giorgio Chiellini
’s flailing arm in
Amir
Rrahmani
’s face.
“When I was a footballer, that would have never been a penalty. It was a scandalous decision,”
Ravanelli
told Juventus TV
.
“Chiellini jumped, spread his arm and hit Rrahmani without doing it on purpose. He couldn’t even see his opponent. Rrahmani would never get the ball, the penalty was invented by the referee and VAR.
Andrea Pirlo
also called the penalty incident dubious, but Italian sports papers wrote Doveri’s decision was correct.
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