"I think if VAR has to call out the referee for a serious error, this is a huge mistake by VAR: Marinelli didn't have the courage to stand by his decision. I can't describe how we feel; we're playing for our lives, and we also have to understand that something like this can't be done. It's scandalous. He stayed down for 20 minutes and didn't even touch him: almost grotesque, it's not a good image."
"Fiorentina played a great game, with heart, and absolutely didn't deserve to lose in this manner. He fell to the ground in an incredible way. Shortly before, there had been a foul on Ranieri, which could have been a red card at that point, but instead he was only given a yellow: the player was left out, and we conceded the goal with ten men."
Robin Gosens opened the scoring with a close-range finish before Rafael Leao levelled with a long-range shot. Eight minutes from full time, Santiago Gimenez went down inside the box holding his face after being pulled back by Fabiano Parisi while chasing a loose ball. The referee reviewed the incident on the monitor and awarded a penalty, which Leao converted to secure a 2-1 victory for Milan. Fiorentina reacted with anger, labeling the VAR intervention a huge mistake and scandalous, and pointed to an earlier foul on Ranieri that could have been a red card but produced only a yellow, leaving the team disadvantaged.
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