Melli: "Parma? Var is detrimental"

Former Parma player and team manager Alessandro Melli in an interview with Parmalive.com had this to say about the controversy following the match against AC Milan: “The match was good and hard-fought. They could have won both: then the episodes, as often happens, were decisive, this time unfortunately to the disadvantage of Parma. I am totally against VAR. First of all because, in my opinion, it takes away the direct emotion typical of sports. VAR is detrimental from the emotional aspect, and then it does not give the sense of the episode: live the episode gives one impression, watching it in slow motion it gives another, especially when it comes to hand fouls: if you are in front of an opponent, the ball goes fast, the opponent makes a feint and the ball slams into your hand, it can never, ever be a penalty.”

“By the way, no player complained: no one noticed the penalty in that case there. Calhanoglu’s offside? Sepe was not misled by the rossonero, so much so that the Gialloblu goalkeeper said nothing after the goal. If, on the other hand, you go to watch the episode in moviola, it looks like Calhanoglu is in front of him: everything changes with moviola: the angle, the speed, the perspective. Everything can be a penalty and nothing can be a penalty. This year I have seen a lot of mistakes. What is positive is that a newly-promoted team goes to the San Siro and plays the game openly for 90′ against a team like Milan, which certainly has a very very different blazon.”