Rosetti gave the refereeing very high marks

Roberto Rossetti, UEFA’s head of refereeing, this Friday assessed the performance of referees in the group stage of the Euro Cup, highlighting above all the novelty of limiting captains. power to speak with braids. “Both coaches and captains have expressed that they are very happy with this initiative,” said the Italian.

Rosetti reviewed the numbers left in this first phase of the group. Starting from effective time which until now is 60 minutes and 30 seconds for each match, under the same rules as the 2021 Euro Cup In section mistakessum of 808 was mentioned in the first phase of the group; an average of 22.4 per game. Only two more than the last edition of the national team tournament

More yellow

A sum of 166 yellow cards, an average of 4.6 per game, was shown in this group stage. Especially noticeable is the increase compared to the previous edition where only 98 were presented by Rosetti who justified this increase in the large number of warnings presented in the so-called “promising attacks”. Specifically 35 out of 166 yellow cards. In the chapter of redthe group stage left us three in this first part of the tournament, there is only one more in line with what happened three years ago.

Especially Rosetti satisfied in the intervention section of VAR. Both from the point of view of monitor analysis and the so-called objective actions.

The VAR, right

Regarding the first one, there are already eight in this group stage where two goals were disallowed, one more was awarded and five penalties were awarded. In all of them he understood that got it right from the VOR room. More than that time of intervention on the monitor is 51 seconds, five seconds less than the one used in the League. The total VAR intervention was approximately 1 minute and 36 seconds.

And then there are those purpose of VAR performances which has to be performed on 12 occasions. Those where they are adopted from the VOR room without the intervention of the field referee. As a result, seven goals were disallowed. The time of intervention is 53 secondsalso less than minutes and 19 seconds of Champions League. Finally, he showed his satisfaction in working with semi-automatic offside with an average of 46 seconds in intervention, also twelve seconds lower than in UEFA club competitions.

Ball technology

Rosetti did not want to end his analysis without mentioning the contribution of ball technology which allowed him to perform on three occasions. Furthermore, the Italian manager expressed his satisfaction because through the screens the spectators know what is happening and the decisions being made. “They are allowed to read what is happening,” he stressed.

Furthermore, Roberto Rosetti showed his satisfaction regarding attitude of captains About the initiative to be the only one talking to the referee: “Everyone in football is happy, both coaches and players.” Rosetti was emphatic in his conclusion: “it works.” He also revealed that the idea is to keep this formula in UEFA club competitions for the next 2024-2025 season and in some national leagues.

Goal disallowed against Netherlands

Rosetti has taken the opportunity to show the various images produced in this first phase and the subsequent decisions. Among them are goal is not allowed in the Netherlands in the match against France which caused a lot of controversy at the time due to referee Anthony Taylor’s decision. For Roberto Rosetti the conversation between the on-field referee and the VAR is very clear. Furthermore, the decision was adopted on the field and from the VAR, once it was adopted, it was never changed once it was reviewed from the VOR room.

Yellow to Donnarumma

Another modified action was the warning that the Italian goalkeeper saw Donnarumma in the match against Spain. The order is clear, that when the captain is the goalkeeper, a field player must be appointed. And the Italian goalkeeper clearly left his place to complain to the referee and the referee’s decision to caution the goalkeeper was correct.

Lewandowski’s penalty

And another play is Lewandowski penalty against France he ordered a replay because the French goalkeeper was clearly not on the goal line. Like the Croatia-Spain penalty play where the Croatian players took the shot first. Both decisions are correct. UEFA has released an important set of photos of what happened in the first phase of this group.