Inter, Marotta furious with Rocchi: "He said no more soft penalties" | OneFootball

After the 3-1 defeat against Napoli, Inter president Giuseppe Marotta analyzed the incidents that influenced the weekend's big match on DAZN, focusing particularly on the penalty awarded to the partenopei after the VAR intervention: “My presence is a contribution I want to make to the system: beyond Napoli, who deserved the victory, the referee initially did not whistle for the penalty, and there was no one better than him. The dynamics required the intervention of VAR, and from there the match took a particular turn. Then Napoli legitimized their success, but the team gave their all and honored their opponents.”

Marotta did not hide his bitterness over the key episode of the match, namely the penalty scored by Kevin De Bruyne after a contact between Mkhitaryan and Di Lorenzo, which is bound to be discussed for a long time: “The victory of Napoli mainly stemmed from this element. Rocchi has repeatedly said ‘enough with soft penalties’, but then let's seek clarity once and for all. I am for the centrality of the referee, but if an assistant intervenes, they cannot be so easily influenced. The episode created bitterness and anger, there was conditioning. Then, to be clear, Napoli could have won anyway.”

Finally, a comment on a moment of tension on the field between Lautaro Martinez and Antonio Conte, which was quickly resolved: “No, absolutely not. These are field dynamics that can happen, but then they cleared things up between themselves.”

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Felice Torino

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.