“Britma” The Italians don't sound on the Champions League

Three losses for the three Italian teams involved in the first single/16 final match of the League Champions. Three “KO”, which has little more or less chance of recovering at the next round, but there were still three fights where judges were protagonists.

Penalizations started a week ago, Porto-Juve: at the end of the match, 2-1 for the Lusitanians, Judge Del Cero Grande does not value contact in the area between Zaidou and Christiano Ronaldo as a penalty. Juvenus' number 7 protests in vain, Pirlo after the match says: “I think it was a clear penalty, the referee said the match was over and there was no need to review the episode at VAR”.

Lazio also feels penalised, which is reflected in Inzagi's words after the 1-4 home match against Bayern Munich: What I can say is that maybe there was a penalty in our favor”. The coach refers to the 18th minute, when Boateng's right foot prevents Milinkovic-Savic's left in the area, but that was nothing to Israeli Judge Greenfeld.

In yesterday's match, Atalanta changed everything after 17 minutes, when Freuler brought down Mandy before entering the penalty area. German Judge Stieler does not hesitate to extract the red card and leave thebergamasque team with 10 players on the field. Coach Gasperini's anger was not absent: The judge did not recognize a crash from a deliberate foul”.

What impresses you is the fact that, in all three cases, judges were not summoned by the VAR chamber to examine the controversial actions. This even though in the League Champions the use of technology is less frequent than what we're used to with Serie A. That's the problem.