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Original Title: De Rossi weighs in on Inter 3-2 Juventus controversy: “The stupidest VAR rule, and I have been saying it for three years, is that a second yellow is not as serious as a straight red. It would be easy to change that in two days. Every second yellow, from tomorrow, should be reviewed.”
De Rossi has since had his chance to comment on the controversial refereeing from the Derby d’Italia.
He believes that it is a positive that this incident happened in such a high-profile game, given the attention it brings outside Italy, and claims that it would take ‘two days’ to amend the necessary VAR rules
“I was one of the first to celebrate the introduction of VAR and perhaps one of the first to realise that we will always be chasing each other on certain things,” De Rossi said.
“The only positive thing about what happened is that it was a match between Juve and Inter, which makes the whole world talk about it. It’s a game that the whole world watches and is massively important in Italy.”
“The stupidest VAR rule, and I have been saying it for three years, is that a second yellow is not as serious as a straight red. It would be easy to change that in two days. Every second yellow, from tomorrow, should be reviewed.”
“I think it would be difficult to find anyone who disagrees that a second yellow is not as serious as a red card after Saturday night, nowadays it changes a game even more than a goal or a penalty.”
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De Rossi: “Inter-Juve carries weight in Italy”
“I was one of the first to be happy about the introduction of VAR and perhaps also one of the first not to regret it but to realize that, for the person who sends the frames back and forth and for the rules, we will always be chasing each other on some things. The only positive thing about what happened is that the match was Juve-Inter, which gets the whole world talking, stirs things up a lot because it’s a match that the whole world watches and a match that carries weight in Italy. The stupidest VAR rule, and I’ve been saying this for three years, is that a second yellow card is less serious than a straight red card. It would be easy to change that in two days. Every second yellow card will be reviewed from tomorrow, but I don’t want to be a show-off. Maybe there are mechanisms that need to be agreed upon by many people, but in the case of Saturday night, I think it’s difficult to find anyone who disagrees that a second yellow card is as serious as a straight red card, which nowadays disrupts the game even more than a goal or a penalty,” said the Genoa coach.