It would be amiss to argue that AC Milan lost because of refereeing decisions against Monza, but Tuttosport have criticised his performance and a couple of big errors he made.
The newspaper (via MilanNews) are highly critical of Colombo who had to make a couple of big calls in the game, namely the penalty that led to Monza’s opening goal and then the Luka Jovic red card.
It was actually the incident that led to goalkeeper Di Gregorio’s injury and consequently to a free-kick for Monza for a (non-existent) foul by Theo Hernandez that they put under the microscope above all else.
In fact, Tuttosport claim that it was Andrea Carboni who brought down Theo Hernandez and the mistake proved to be doubly serious because the penalty whistled for Monza arose precisely from the non-existent foul on Theo which gave a free-kick to the home side.
On the red card, Jovic was sent off after a VAR consultation which appeared to show that he lashed out towards Izzo, but the paper mention that Izzo’s repeated provocations were not spotted.
The Italian defender and the Serbian striker had a coming together not long before the red card incident, which the referee clearly failed to defuse.
