The 1-1 draw between Cagliari and Lecce inevitably revolved around the expulsion of Gaetano in the 44th minute , at 1-0, with match director Marcenaro having first given the yellow card on the pitch and then - recalled by VAR - opting to direct red. " I think the referee saw well, then when you get called back it's logical that you have to change the evaluation ", Claudio Ranieri's recrimination on the episode. «I had doubts that he had taken it, it certainly was the case but it didn't seem like it to me. It's a shame, because we were doing well and we couldn't get Lecce to play the way they want: from there the game changed ." The coach doesn't give up on the red card: «The referee had the clear feeling that Gaetano was going for the ball, if you look he retracts his leg so as not to try to hit him . If you allow me a joke in the expulsion there is a gulf between giving it and not giving it ", he quips considering that Abisso is the referee who was at VAR and decided for the warning to the monitor.
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Given the two posts and the double opportunity on the same play in the final, Cagliari, outnumbered, also risked losing it at the end. Reason why Ranieri gets the draw : «We held out as long as we could, they managed to score a goal and then they could have also won the match. When you can't win, it's better to take a point home ." Marcenaro also warned him, in one of the many frantic moments of the match: " I had to laugh about the warning he gave me, I just told him that it seemed to me that Gaetano hadn't touched his opponent ."
