Marco Rossi disagrees: “Clear penalty.”

Hungary’s coach goes down flat.

It is not only the failure to qualify for the Nations League Final Four that has Hungary coach Marco Rossi chewing bitterly: while acknowledging the Azzurri’s merits, the Magyar coach expressed his dissent over the failure to award a penalty in the 79th minute for a push in the box by Bastoni on Adam, which did not merit the maximum penalty in the opinion of referee Bastien and the Var officials.

“From our point of view the penalty was clear,” Rossi said in the post-match press conference at Puskas Arena, “the defender intervened from behind. I’m curious to see it again, but from the dynamics it really looked like the penalty was there.”

“The fact is that there is Var,” added the Piedmontese coach. “If they did not assess there were extremes of the penalty… Unfortunately there is little to complain about, we have to accept the decision. It remains a pity, however, we would have reopened the game.”