Corriere dello Sport has “doubts” at the second goal “Gazzetta dello Sport:” Istvan Kovacs, too tolerant “
Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Sunday, June 1, 2025, 10:01 / Updated Sunday, June 1, 20:01
Istvan Kovacs, the referee of the Munich final, was noted with 6.5 in the big daily peninsula. The same qualifier was received by assistants Mihai Marius Marica and Ferencz Tunyogi.
Although Istvan Kovacs led the final of the Munich League impeccably, PSG-Inter 5-0, the big Italian sports daily have still found to reproach them. Corriere dello Sport wrote that the Romanian referee had twice forgiven “yellow” on PSG's player, Pacho, and expressed “doubts” to the second goal of the French, scored by two.
Corriere dello Sport: “Pacho's ice is very close to Nicolo Barella”
“There are doubts about the second goal of the Parisians. Pacho recovered the ball from Barella, but the French defender had an intervention perhaps. His ice is very close to Nicolo Barella,” writes Corriere Dello Sport, who gave 6.5 to Kovacs and noted that he was “the third final, for the last four years, for the last four years year old.
An easy one, the lightest. He has now interrupted the series of victories of our clubs in the European finals with him at the center, after Conference League 2022.
Gazzetta dello Sport: “Istvan Kovacs had to give Pacho's yellow card”
Corierre noted Kovacs with 6.5, as well as his colleagues from the lines, Mihai Marius Marica and Ferencz Tunyogi. The same rating was received by the three and in Gazzetta Dello Sport. The journalists of the most important profile newspaper in Italy also had something to reproach our “central”.
“Kovacs often let the game continue, but failed to show Pacho's yellow card in the 14th minute of the second half, following a potentially dangerous race of Thuram,” writes the Pink daily. And something else. Gazzetta dello Sport believes that he was “a little too tolerant of Donnarumma's time losses”, but, as a whole, “there are few mistakes in his decisions and those of the lime”.
