AIA’s stance on Moreo-Gabbia incident before Pisa’s second goal emerges

The official stance of the AIA has emerged regarding Pisa’s controversial second goal at San Siro on Friday night.

With four minutes left on the clock, Pisa stunned San Siro as they took the lead. A long ball over the top from Toure found the run of M’Bala Nzola, who scored past Mike Maignan by slotting the ball between his legs.

However, after the goal was scored there were some protests from Milan players as Matteo Gabbia appeared to get rugby tackled to the ground off the ball by Moreo, yet a VAR review yielded no reprieve.

The AIA’s stance

As Corriere della Sera (via MilanNews) have reported this morning, the AIA (Italian Referees Association) officials felt that the challenge wasn’t enough to disallow the goal for Alberto Gilardino’s side. No further information is given than that.

Just as it seemed that Nzola’s goal would be the winner, Zachary Athekame was the unlikely hero in the 94th minute. A corner was cleared to the Swiss full-back on the edge of the box, and he let fly from range, with his shot eventually nestling in off the right post.

Even for that goal there were some shouts for it to be disallowed, because there were several Milan players stood in an offside position. Nonetheless, it was deemed none of them interfered with play.