Milan, controversy erupts over goal disallowed to Pulisic. Marelli is clear
Anglo fans enraged at the end of the San Siro match against Sassuolo, which ended 2-2. After Koné’s lead, the Diavolo had reversed the result thanks to Bartesaghi’s brace, and found the 3-1 with Pulisic, which was later annulled by referee Crezzini: this very decision infuriated the Rossoneri supporters, in light of Laurienté’s subsequent equalizer. The’key incident occurred on 57′: on the score of 2-1 for Allegri’s team, Pulisic beat Muric from a short distance thanks to a header assist from Pavlovic, but the referee immediately annulled a goal due to contact between Loftus-Cheek and Candé.
The Guinean defender fell after the English midfielder put his hands on his shoulders during the action that led to Pulisic’s goal. “It leaves a lot of doubt – said DAZN referee commentator Marelli- . The referee has the action completed and then blows the whistle. It is a field action, VAR cannot intervene. There was contact, Loftus rests his hands on the Sassuolo player but I don’t see any push. Counting that Crezzini whistled very little, 24 fouls, this is far below the threshold. He simply rested his hands on his back: in my opinion this goal should not have been annulled. Then there was no offside to report”.
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On social media a storm broke out with Milan fans furious: “The perfect crime, without calling VAR or making too much fuss. Quick recovery. Total darkness”, “Match ended on Pulisic”’s regular goal; “The goal disallowed to Pulisic has no explanation”, “After I have cooled my nerves with Allegri we will discuss the goal disallowed to Pulisic passed in cavalierly”, “Let someone help me understand the reason for the’cancellation of #Pulisic’s goal. I am literally dumbfounded”, is the tenor of comments from Rossoneri fans. After the match, Massimiliano Allegri preferred to focus on the team’s performance.
“We played a good game in my opinion, we attacked well against a deployed defense. On the first goal we could have been a bit more alert, on the second the same. But let’s say we played a good game, but we risked losing it after we had made it 3-1. Let’s take this point and get ready for the Super Cup”.
“Our path is to get to May 25 among the top 4. We know that we have to keep working and we have to start taking fewer goals because we have taken too many. 2 in Parma, 2 today, 2 in Torino, 2 with Pisa, 2 with Cremonese. To the boys, however, I have absolutely nothing to reproach them for”.
