Percassi after Inter-Atalanta: “Very serious errors by the referee and VAR”

One point with Milan, zero (with 4 goals under his belt) with Inter. The three days at San Siro didn’t go very well for Atalanta. But the Goddess’ anger is linked to the goal disallowed by De Ketelaere and the penalty given to Inter at the start of the second half. Gasperini does not appear at Dazn’s microphones, the CEO Luca Percassi arrives in his place.

“It’s difficult to comment on a match like this – says Percassi – We had a great team in front of us, to whom we congratulate, they deserve first place, they showed great quality. But there is great disappointment for the result, there were decisive episodes that did not we understand, very serious errors on the part of the referee and VAR. I’m talking about the first goal disallowed, in an incomprehensible way, how can you, despite the images, cancel a goal like that? I’m not here to open a debate but to express our thoughts. De Ketelaere’s goal was valid, at most there should have been a penalty for us. The other scandalous episode is the penalty given to Inter. No one at the stadium understood what was happening, 5-6 minutes passed before finding something that no one had seen , especially with the linesman who had raised his flag. We are deeply sorry, it was a potentially beautiful match which instead was heavily influenced by rampant refereeing episodes which decided the result in favor of Inter. Miranchuk’s foul wasn’t there, the VAR created the effect of being able to interpret objective things, it’s very simple there is no touch of the arm, it’s Bastoni who touches the ball, we don’t interpret very clear images. Sorry, these very complicated matches are conditioned by episodes that move them in a decisive way.”

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Gasperini instead talks (almost) only about the match in the press room: “In the second half I didn’t even see my team that bad. We made a lot of changes and the match became training, even on the occasion of the third goal. After that I don’t think it was It was more of a Serie A match. I had the feeling that we are ready to play the next matches, we did well in the first half against a very strong Inter. The result leaves us a bit perplexed. This is not the type of performance that we it can affect morally, also considering what we did while the match was on. We played – against a great Inter – an anomalous and very strange match. Now let’s move on to the next one (Bologna on Sunday, ed.), there’s no time of thinking too negatively or too positively when you play every three days. We have a good condition, we’re fine. We’ll face Bologna, then Sporting, then Juve, Sporting again, Fiorentina (in the Italian Cup, ed.) , then again Naples and the return with Fiorentina. Well loaded, ready and let’s go again.” Then Gasp touches on the hot topic: “I’ll talk about episodes and regulations when I win. Maybe Inter would have won anyway, but it would have been a real match. We are in all the competitions, the matches are becoming more and more decisive, sometimes these evenings also happen and you have to be ready to put them aside and think about the next one. We and Bologna are there to compete with Roma, Lazio, Naples, Fiorentina, who knows maybe even Turin. For some teams, Europe is fundamental, for others it is the ultimate goal.”

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“The episodes directed the match, we started well, then against Inter, a very strong team that always puts you in difficulty, you go astray with episodes like this to your detriment – adds Zappacosta again to Dazn – Our nature is to not never give up, we wanted to get back on the pitch after the break to reopen it but we weren’t able to. The 4-0 is undeserved, from tomorrow we’ll turn the page and think about Bologna. It’s uncomfortable to talk about the episodes, sometimes they’re in your favor, other times against , when the matches are balanced they move. Percassi spoke, I won’t add anything else.”