Farioli: “By that standard, Sporting are down to 10 after 7 mins” | OneFootball

“A few weeks ago I spoke about the grey areas that were turning green, and in the other semi-final the same referee made a decision that, if he had kept the same criteria, today after seven minutes we would have had a free-kick on the edge of the area and Sporting would have been a player down. And this was one of 7 or 8 incidents; it is something that is becoming habitual and difficult to manage. There are so many situations that sometimes we forget what happens, but let us focus on the team’s performance, which should be celebrated for what we did with 11 and 10 players. Now that we are out of the Cup, the focus is on the league; there is a job still to be finished with many points still to play for, despite the bitter feeling of a final we deserved to reach.”

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