What is the Var for? Impossible not to ask after the game of Florence, decided by technology. The Viola won 2-0 against Atalanta and now they are third with Inter and Sassuolo awaiting the neroverdi challenge with Milan. But the success weighs on the serious refereeing error that gave Fiorentina the lead after an hour of bad football and not purposeful. Strange, given what had previously shown the team of Pioli. At 16 'of the recovery Church fell into the area after a contact with Toloi: Valeri whistled the penalty, but was the attacker to go crashing into the defender after having "hoed" the ground running. Unbelievable that the Var did not intervene. We do not know if Doveri could not convince Valeri to relate to the action or whether it was the referee who failed to make up his mind. The fact remains that Veretout kicked the penalty by changing the game. Even the purple doubling, signed by Biraghi on punishment in the recovery, is the result of technology: only thanks to goal-line technology it was noticed that the ball had passed the line before the rejected by Gollini. The technology is there, just use it well to avoid serious mistakes.
FIRST TIME - The game was much less beautiful than expected. No surprise in the purple line, with the trident Church-Simeone-Pjaca, while Gasperini reverses the positions of Freuler (which moves behind the tips) and Pasalic (left center in the midfield to four). The surprise, however, is in the progress of the game: Atalanta keeps the ball and attacks with continuity, Fiorentina is limited to a lackluster containment and rebounds for nothing insidious.
The Nerazzurri pressure is remarkable as well as the push on the right wing where Gasperini has placed Gomez with the dual purpose of creating numerical superiority paired with Hateboer against poor Biraghi, abandoned to his fate by an absent-minded Gerson, and to block the purpleback avoiding or reducing its dangerous cross. At 6 'Gomez sends Castagne to the shot, replied. At 12 'the Papu wins a contrast with Pezzella, enters the area and kick from a tight angle: ball on the bottom. Fiorentina suffers and does not start again, Pioli reverses the Church and Pjaca bands but without results. When Church returns to the right, he places the only purple starting point of the first half: in the 44th minute, Castagne jumps and crosses, but Simeone is anticipated. Fiorentina, who in the meantime has replaced the injured Benassi with Fernandes, never commits Gollini, but also Atalanta, although the owner of the game, goes to the rest with the regret of not having turned into occasions and maybe in the goal highlighted superiority from the kick-off.
SECOND TIME - At the beginning of the recovery the inertia of the race does not change, but Atalanta does not sting and then slows down the pace. So Fiorentina slowly comes out, wastes a good counterattack and at 18 'goes ahead with the penalty already described. From that moment the Atalanta besieged the purple area. Gasperini insert first Rigoni and then Barrow, Lafont misses a couple of exits, Rigoni does not take advantage of it. At 40, however, the young goalkeeper is good on a low shot of the left of Gomez. La Viola no longer runs the risk, rather protests for a slight contact between De Roon and Mirallas and doubles to 94 'with a punishment of Biraghi that Gollini rejects over the line: it is the 2-0 that closes the match.
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Serie A