Verona defender picks up a pass into the area with his hands, everyone is incredulous: it’s a penalty
The episode took place during a match in the Primavera tournament. The mistake cost Hellas dearly, who saw the Rossoneri reach from eleven meters due to a mess on the goalkeeper’s throw-in.
The touch of the ingenuous hands of the Verona defender who gave the penalty to Milan Primavera.
An incredible ingenuity from which Milan Primavera benefited. It was committed by the defender of Verona who, to the advantage of a goal, saw himself reached on a penalty awarded due to a mess by his own player. A careless error or, perhaps, a misunderstanding with his own goalkeeper: whatever the player’s reasons were, the referee could do nothing else but award the penalty to the Rossoneri.
The evolution of that particular juncture of the meeting explains well what happened. After an action in which the referee had stopped the game, there was a throw-in by the referee himself who had handed the ball to the goalkeeper from Verona. With his touch the match would resume regularly. From the images it can be seen how the goalkeeper takes the ball with his hands and then passes it to the teammate who is on his left.
The Verona goalkeeper passes the ball to his teammate, it is at that moment that the defender makes a mess.
It was at that moment that the fatal error occurred at Hellas: believing that it was a normal goal kick, when he saw the ball coming nearby, he bent down and stopped it with his hands. He tows it and places it at his feet but that gesture will be punished with a shot from eleven meters: he hadn’t realized that play had already resumed. His amazement is matched by that of his teammates, incredulous of what happened. The attempt to convince the race director was useless.
What happened in the Milan-Verona Primavera brought back to mind another very similar episode that took place in Serie A during a Bologna-Turin match last season. The protagonists were the goalkeeper, Skorupski, and the defender, Medel, during a goal kick. The images showed the Bolognese goalkeeper moving in his goal area as if he had already restarted the action, to the right of him was the Chilean centre-back who had asked him for the ball.
Skorupski and Medel’s precedent in Bologna–Turin last season.
The ball actually reaches Medel who takes it in his hands and positions himself on the line to restart the action. The Bull protests but the match director lets it continue, forgiving the player’s inattention. After the game, the former coach, Sinisa Mihajlovic, admitted very sincerely: “In this single episode he gave us a gift… if he enforced the rules, it was clearly a penalty against us.” The one in the Primavera match, on the other hand, had no doubts.
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