Coach Roberto D’Aversa feels Empoli and particularly Luca Marianucci paid the worth for ‘a deficit of expertise’ with Milan, revealing what he informed Sergio Conceicao about Santiago Gimenez.
The Tuscans had been given the person benefit when Fikayo Tomori obtained a second yellow card, despite the fact that Lorenzo Colombo was offside earlier than being fouled.
Nonetheless, 10 minutes later Marianucci was penalised following a VAR On-Discipline Assessment for
“We noticed an actual deficit of expertise between my lads and the Milan gamers this night,”
On the purple card, the referee seen the footage and determined to e-book Gimenez for a push that he thought-about to be provocation, however confirmed a straight purple card to Marianucci for wanting behind him and flicking up a foot to kick the striker within the crotch.
“Gimenez was sneaky, however then after I hear any participant described as ‘sneaky’ then I begin to suppose one thing is just not fairly proper.”
D’Aversa pissed off by one other Empoli loss
The match was finally determined with each groups right down to 10 males by targets from substitutes Rafael Leao and Gimenez for
“We had a giant probability within the first half with Colombo off the woodwork, however the actual mistake we made was throwing away the chance to play with the additional man.”
The DAZN pundits requested D’Aversa what he informed Milan boss Sergio Conceicao after the ultimate whistle, seeing as the 2 had exchanged some phrases throughout the sport too.
“I congratulated him and he did the identical to me, however then I additionally informed him it’s not proper to systematically name the fourth official and referee. It was within the warmth of the second and no one likes to lose.”
Empoli at the moment are with no Serie A victory in two months and managed simply two factors from their final seven video games, however D’Aversa stood up for his squad.
“We’ve got additionally had loads of accidents and the performances have been good, together with in the present day in opposition to Milan. The one time we actually bought it fallacious was 20 minutes in opposition to Lecce. I do know it’s a foul behavior in Italy, however I don’t like individuals judging based mostly solely on outcomes and never taking the performances into consideration.”
That harm disaster could be getting even worse, as Mattia Viti was carried off in agony after his left knee was bent again in an unintentional collision with Alex Jimenez.
“We hope it was only a horrible scare.”
