If our defenders had a handball like Lazio defender did in the first half, ref would review the replay and pk. We have seen that so many times since VAR implemented a few seasons ago. But if Juve's opponents committed handballs, the ref would deny the pk, and the VAR refs didn't do anything either. To me, there's clearly an agenda against us.
When you have VAR and very clear "Laws of the game 2020/21" for handling offence, there is no space for mistakes.
What happened: the ball rebounds from Acerbi and hits Hoedt's hand.
On p. 106 in "Laws of the game" it's clearly stated that
It's not a penalty if the ball touches a player's hand/arm:
• directly from the head or body (including the foot) of another player who is close.
This is what the ref called, so some might say it was a correct decision.
But then we have this on p. 104 of the same "Laws"
It is a penalty offence if a player touches the ball with his hand/arm when:
• the hand/arm has made their body unnaturally bigger.
Confusing situation, right? One law makes yesterday's handball a penalty, and one doesn't.
That is why the "Laws" have a solution for this. On p. 104, it is also said that if a player touches the ball with his hand/arm when the hand/arm made their body unnaturally bigger, it is a penalty offence:
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even if the ball touches a player’s hand/arm directly from the head or body (including the foot) of another player who is close.
Crystal clear. If the main ref saw the rebound and didn't see the handball very clear, or couldn't decide if the hand made the body unnaturally bigger, VAR was there to make the penalty call, because the hand/arm made the body unnaturally bigger without any doubts.