Juventus drew on Sunday evening with the result 2-2 against Salernitana. A challenge which produced many controversies since the whites overturned the challenge in extra minutes thanks to a goal by Milik. However, seconds after a wild celebration with the Pole receiving a second yellow card after taking off his shirt, referee Marcenaro decided to disallow the goal for an offside position on Leonardo Bonucci.
The defender was considered a player who influenced the action by taking away the opportunity for the goalkeeper to react, although it was a highly controversial decision. The Turinese’s nerves didn’t last with Cuadrado and Allegri being punished with red cards for protesting, even though a video published after the end of the game blew VAR’s bluff as Candreva appears holding Bonucci in the game.
A huge mistake in the era of VAR, while in Italy they are already talking about the possibility of the game being replayed due to the technical error. Although such a hypothesis is difficult to realize given that in the previous precedents of the Italian championship, when a technical error was committed, the matches were not replayed.
Suffice it to recall last season’s match between Spezia and Lazio when Acerbi scored offside and escaped VAR judgment, however the match was not replayed. The protocol is clear even in such cases, and regardless of technical errors on the field by the referee or VAR, in the end the result produced by the 90-minute cannot change.
Thus, despite the fact that Juventus has the right to protest and complain, it will still have to settle for just one point from the home challenge against Salernitana.