GdS: The two errors referee Tremolada made during Siebert-Nkunku incident

Referee Paride Tremolada has been criticised for some of the decisions that he made during AC Milan’s Coppa Italia win over Lecce.

La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) write that it was ‘a bad night for Tremolada’. In the 13th minute, Milan called for a penalty when Christopher Nkunku went down after a collision with Siebert. It wasn’t enough for a penalty, so the referee was right to wave the appeals away.

Three minutes later, Siebert brought down Nkunku again, and Tremolada made a double mistake in this particular moment. The first issue is that he didn’t play on when Santiago Gimenez was alone in front of goal (he missed anyway, but fans will remember the Junior Messias vs. Spezia precedent).

Then the other error was that he showed the Lecce defender a yellow card. It was a clear goal-scoring opportunity, but only after a VAR intervention was Siebert sent off.

Santiago Gimenez would go on to open the scoring on the night not long after the red card. Then, Christopher Nkunku and Christian Pulisic both scored in the second half in an eventual 3-0 victory. It allowed Milan to get the job done with no drama, ahead of Sunday’s big one against Napoli.