Refereeing designator Gianluca Rocchi explains a few of the extra controversial selections in Serie A Week 12, together with the penalty calls in Inter-Milan and Fiorentina-Juventus.
As with each Serie A spherical, the incidents are analysed and dissected on DAZN programme Open VAR, which incorporates the audio of the officers as they labored by way of these moments in actual time, and the footage that they had obtainable to them.
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The primary was in Fiorentina 1-1 Juventus, when Daniele Doveri awarded
It was later revoked following the VAR On-Area Overview, as Vlahovic was adjudged to have began the reciprocal foul.
VAR received it proper on two huge Serie A incidents
FLORENCE, ITALY – NOVEMBER 22: Normal view contained in the stadium Artemio Franchi through the Serie A match between ACF Fiorentina and Juventus FC at Artemio Franchi on November 22, 2025 in Florence, Italy. (Photograph by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Pictures)
“It’s a advanced incident, and on first viewing I’d’ve performed what Doveri did too,”
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“Nonetheless, whenever you see it from one other angle, you’ll be able to inform Vlahovic was very intelligent and held the Fiorentina participant. The ultimate resolution to revoke the penalty is the right one, particularly as VAR gives the view from an angle that Doveri couldn’t see.
“Doveri sees the Pablo Mari foul, however it’s sequentially after the Vlahovic one.”
MILAN, ITALY – DECEMBER 04: Gianluca Rocchi and Daniele Orsato obtain the AIC Oscar del Calcio Awards on December 04, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Pictures )
On the subject of the Serie A protocol for the VAR to intervene, Rocchi outlines that ‘clear and apparent error’ isn’t at all times the identical.
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“It’s not that if the referee has determined, then VAR can’t intervene. Using expertise has modified. When it was first launched seven years in the past, it was just for the obvious errors, however what we wish is to have the right resolution made.
“Now I inform my lads that an additional On-Area Overview is healthier than not having one. It’s such a balanced league, we should solely give a penalty whether it is 100 per cent.
“I’d be anxious if I heard the officers say this was a penalty, even when there wasn’t a lot in it.”
MILAN, ITALY – NOVEMBER 23: Mike Maignan of AC Milan saves a penalty kick Hakan Calhanoglu of FC Internazionale through the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and AC Milan at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on November 23, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Marco Luzzani/Getty Pictures)
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There have been some complaints from AC Milan too concerning the penalty awarded for
This was not noticed by the Serie A referee on the day, however awarded following the VAR evaluate.
“We intervene when a problem is imprudent, so fairly appropriately the VAR right here tells the referee to resolve autonomously after seeing it from each angle,” defined Rocchi.
“It’s a bookable offence and likewise clearly a penalty. If it had been a traditional contact after the ball had been launched, it might not require an intervention, however the imprudent nature of the problem is what requires the On Area Overview.”
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Some had argued that the actual fact Thuram had already crossed and launched the ball made the contact irrelevant to the Inter attacking transfer.
“No, it doesn’t matter. We’ve got at all times been constant on that, there was an analogous incident in Fiorentina-Lazio final season, whereas this time period we stated clearly we made a mistake in lacking one other throughout Lazio-Juventus. We will make errors, however as a result of we missed one doesn’t imply the others aren’t penalties too.”