Rocchi explains Genoa-Juventus and Lazio-Inter handball decisions

Refereeing designator Gianluca Rocchi went over footage of two controversial handball incidents in Genoa–Juventus and Lazio–Inter, attempting to elucidate why these choices had been made.

“Handball is essentially the most difficult factor for referees, as a result of it’s at all times going to be a subjective ruling,” Rocchi stated through the weekly DAZN interview.

“When folks say why are two conditions not the identical, it’s as a result of the 2 conditions are by no means the identical both.”

The primary incident noticed a Juve cross hit Mattia Bani on the knee and ricochet onto the arm as he tried to tug it out of the best way.

Whereas beforehand the steering had recommended that if the ball hit a ‘protected’ a part of the physique and ricocheted onto the arm, it couldn’t be thought of an intentional dealing with offence, that has now modified.

Nevertheless, the dialogue within the VAR sales space with the AVAR appeared to nonetheless have that older interpretation of the foundations.

“It hit the knee, I’m not . I’m not , that hit the knee,” was the remark from the VAR.

This was a dialogue between the VAR and AVAR, with out informing the referee till their choice had been made.

That incident triggered an excessive amount of debate and controversy, with even the refereeing designator admitting the state of affairs was not totally clear.

“I’d lean extra in direction of a penalty than not, however it isn’t 100 per cent an error. The spark off the knee just isn’t enough to take away the handball.

“Greater than the knee, I’d deal with the arm, which isn’t agency, if something it’s pulling backwards attempting to get it out of the best way.”

The same method was discovered within the Mario Gila dealing with offence for Lazio in opposition to Inter, noting the ball hit his abdomen first after which the arm.

Nevertheless, this time Rocchi defined why it was to not be thought of a penalty.

“As a result of the ball visibly modified route off the abdomen and he principally pushed it onto his personal arm by mistake. With the Genoa state of affairs, the ball didn’t transform route.”

Had the referee given a penalty for the Gila handball, might it’s modified by a VAR overview?

“In all probability not, that might’ve been very tough, as you can’t say it didn’t contact the arm. The officers did significantly better as a result of they decided, which makes it simpler for VAR.”

One other controversial state of affairs through the Genoa 1-1 Juventus match was a Ruslan Malinovskyi lunge with studs up on the ankle.

Though the VAR initially used an expression that in English would translate as “bloody hell,” he didn’t recommend the referee change the unique ruling of a yellow card to a crimson.

Rocchi agreed this was a mistake and “it ought to’ve been a crimson card with an on-field overview. I requested officers to be very extreme on one of these problem the place the gamers are uncontrolled and change into a hazard to the opponent.”