The Italian press has not regarded too kindly on referee Felix Zwayer or VAR Sören Storks after Inter’s 1-0 loss at house in opposition to Liverpool within the Champions League on Tuesday night, because the Nerazzurri are left feeling arduous completed by after the smooth penalty given in opposition to Alessandro Bastoni within the 88th minute.
Inter slipped to their second consecutive Champions League on Tuesday night time. They have been crushed in stoppage time by Atletico Madrid a fortnight in the past, and have been once more crushed late on attributable to a controversial penalty choice in opposition to Liverpool in San Siro final night time.
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There was the slightest of blouse pulls from Inter centre-back Bastoni on Liverpool’s Wirtz with only a few minutes left to play. Initially waved away, Liverpool have been later awarded what’s extensively thought of a really smooth penalty after a prolonged VAR evaluate.
MILAN, ITALY – DECEMBER 09: Referee Felix Zwayer, consults the VAR display screen earlier than declaring the aim scored by Ibrahima Konate of Liverpool (not pictured) disallowed for a handball throughout the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Part MD6 match between FC Internazionale Milano and Liverpool FC at Stadio San Siro on December 09, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Picture by Justin Setterfield/Getty Photos)
Inter’s Manuel Akanji has described the incident as, whereas Liverpool skipper Virgil van Dijk when watching the replays on Italian TV.
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What Italian papers stated about Liverpool’s controversial penalty in opposition to Inter
wrote that VAR was “right to rule out Konate’s aim, however the decisive penalty awarded to the Reds was a giant mistake.”
went even additional, criticising UEFA’s chief refereeing officer Roberto Rosetti for persevering with to present Champions League matches to referee Zwayer. They described it as ‘scandalous’.
MILAN, ITALY – DECEMBER 09: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale disputes with Referee Felix Zwayer throughout the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Part MD6 match between FC Internazionale Milano and Liverpool FC at Stadio San Siro on December 09, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photos)
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“It’s obscure how Rosetti continues to belief a referee who has no less than one on-field evaluate per sport in Europe. Scandalous. And someway, the VAR, Storks, did even worse.”
Corriere dello Sport admitted that Bastoni was naive to seize Wirtz’s shirt within the penalty space, however argues that the naivety was overshadowed by the refereeing ‘incompetence’. They gave Zwayer a ranking of 4.5/10.
, in the meantime, gave referee Zwayer a ranking of 5/10. They declare that the handball awarded in opposition to Hugo Ekitike previous to Ibrahima Konate’s disallowed aim ought to have been noticed with the bare eye, and add that it was VAR Storks at fault for the controversial late penalty.