The ground on the Apennines is still shaking after the Derby d'Italia and Inter's victory over Juventus, which was influenced by referee Federico La Pena by leaving the "old lady" with a player less at the end of the first half.
Pierre Kalulu was sent off, receiving a second yellow card after contact with Alessandro Bastoni, and it is clear that the system was defeated on Saturday night at the Giuseppe Meazza, because on the biggest stage we saw what it looks like when a referee rushes into a mistake that even his colleagues in the VAR room cannot correct.
The hunt for referees in Italy is now such that some rules will probably change, because it is inexplicable that VAR can react to a direct red card, but is powerless when sending off a player who has received a second yellow card...
"I've been talking about this rule for three years," said Genoa coach Daniele de Rossi, a legend of Italian football.
"The stupidest VAR rule is that a second yellow card is not treated the same as a direct red. Why? And that rule can be corrected in just two days and I think some decisions need to be re-examined, because we talk about the same things from week to week," De Rossi pointed out.
Serie A president Ezio Simonelli announced an important meeting of coaches, players and referees on March 23rd, but has already raised his hand for changes.
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"My opinion is that VAR should react to all yellow cards, not just when it comes to the second one. It is absurd for a team to be left with a player less because the protocol does not allow a bad decision to be corrected," said Simonelli.
Inter also made an announcement.
"The hunt for Bastoni is unnecessary, just as it is unnecessary for the referees. It is obvious that the referees made a mistake in the derby, but I remember that last season - in this same system and with the same people in the refereeing organization - Inter was damaged by a penalty against Roma, the referees later publicly admitted their mistake. That penalty could have brought us a draw, and in the end we fell short by exactly one point in the fight for the Scudetto. We accepted that it was a human factor," said Inter president Giuseppe Marotta.
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