The novelty had been introduced to the Italian Cup, but there were no doubts. During PSG-Athletic instead the Romanian made clarity … in his own way
It was a novelty introduced by us also, in the Italian Cup, but then the episodes had been missed to put it into practice. Tonight for the first time a referee explained his decisions directly to the public after checking the monitor (on Field Review). The Romanian Istvan Kovacs, Race Director of PSG-Athletic at the Club World Cup, had to intervene on two occasions.
The first episode, in the second half, led to the cancellation of Alvarez’s goal that could have reopened the game, on 2-0 for the new champions of Europe. But before there had been a clear foul of Koke on Douè, seen precisely only to the monitor. Kovacs has announced to the spectators the “foul of number 6” and the consequent cancellation of the Spanish goal. In the recovery, other check after a hands in the area of Le Normand and Dischetto indicated after a fun explanation, perhaps for the relative knowledge of the English language. In fact, Kovacs explained to the microphone that “the number 24 has become bigger, so it is penalty”.