"Strahinja Pavlovic has been catching a lot of heat on social media for an incident at the end of Milan-Genoa, damaging the penalty spot just before the away side's penalty miss. San Siro holding its breath, the Milan players in heated exchanges with the referee, the Genoa players protecting Nicolae Stanciu... Amidst all of this, one of the Rossoneri players - namely Strahinja Pavlovic - was doing something completely different."
"As shown by various videos on social media, the Serbian defender was seen kicking the ground right by the penalty spot. His goal: to make things as difficult as possible for the penalty-taker Stanciu, who needed all the grip he could get in that moment. Sure enough, in the 99th minute, the Genoa man skied his penalty and Milan escaped with one point and their unbeaten run intact."
Strahinja Pavlovic kicked and damaged the ground by the penalty spot at the end of Milan-Genoa, apparently aiming to unsettle Genoa penalty-taker Nicolae Stanciu. Stanciu missed the 99th-minute penalty, allowing Milan to keep an unbeaten record and one point. Pavlovic received a yellow card for a confrontation with Leo Ostigård, not for the alleged tampering. Officials reported that retrospective sanction is unlikely because linking the ground damage to the missed kick is difficult to prove and TV images are restricted to violent conduct or blasphemy. Milan has not issued an official comment. Observers questioned why opponents did not react on the pitch.
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