VINCENZO ITALIANO REBELLED: "THE PUNCHES WENT UNPUNISHED"

Stepping before the cameras after those tough struggles, technical director Vincenzo Italiano broke his silence against that massive injustice seen on the green pitches and directed harsh criticisms to the football management. The coach, who never preferred to talk about the referees or controversial decisions at the ends of the matches, went crazy after those physical interventions carried out towards his players in 2 consecutive encounters. Italiano, who voiced that he saw referee mistakes as a natural part of the game, always exhibited an understanding attitude against those canceled goals or the clear penalties that were not given. However, those grave violence events experienced inside the pitch became that last drop that overflowed the glass. The Italian technical man, who stated that those hard punches thrown by the opponents were not punished by the referees and the video assistant referee system, watched this unbelievable situation with a great shock. Expressing his reaction with the words "Until now, I was not someone who loved to talk about the referee after the match. But those punch events that happened to us in 2 matches are definitely unacceptable", the coach separated that competitive nature of football and violence from each other with a clear line. Italiano, who stated that the canceled goals could happen to every team and he welcomed this kind of referee mistakes with understanding, emphasized that the physical violence and those obvious punches were in a completely different dimension. The ignoring of those hard punches thrown by the opponent players by all authorities deeply shook the belief of the coach in football justice. Italiano conveyed clearly to the entire sports public that this kind of violence actions had to be punished in the heaviest way. Thousands of fans who filled the stands also gave a great support to this justified reaction given by their coach over social media.

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