{"id":241495,"date":"2025-11-03T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241495\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:48:10","slug":"referee-guida-appears-to-kick-milan-winger-saelemaekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241495\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee Guida appears to kick Milan winger Saelemaekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ac-milan-v-pisa-sc-serie-a-4-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-922554 has-webp\" alt=\"MILAN, ITALY - OCTOBER 24: Henrik Meister of Pisa SC is challenged by Alexis Saelemaekers of AC Milan during the Serie A match between AC Milan and Pisa SC at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on October 24, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MILAN, ITALY &#8211; OCTOBER 24: Henrik Meister of Pisa SC is challenged by Alexis Saelemaekers of AC Milan during the Serie A match between AC Milan and Pisa SC at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on October 24, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A video that has gone viral in Italy appears to show referee Marco Guida kicking Milan winger Alexis Saelemaekers while the Belgian was celebrating Mike Maignan\u2019s penalty save.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/serie-a-ac-milan-1-0-roma-scudetto-battle-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Milan-Roma<\/a> referee Guida appeared to kick Rossoneri winger Saelemaekers after Maignan saved a Paulo Dybala penalty in the second half of a Serie A match at San Siro last night.<\/p>\n<p>Saelemaekers couldn\u2019t contain his joy after Maignan\u2019s crucial intervention, but seemed to be kicked on his right leg by the referee.<\/p>\n<p>Former referee blames Guida: \u2018Serious error\u2019<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pisa-sc-v-hellas-verona-fc-serie-a.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-924393 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"PISA, ITALY - OCTOBER 18: Marco Guida referee looks on during the Serie A match between Pisa SC and Hellas Verona FC at Arena Garibaldi on October 18, 2025 in Pisa, Italy. (Photo by Gabriele Maltinti\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/802;max-width:1200px\"\/>PISA, ITALY \u2013 OCTOBER 18: Marco Guida referee looks on during the Serie A match between Pisa SC and Hellas Verona FC at Arena Garibaldi on October 18, 2025 in Pisa, Italy. (Photo by Gabriele Maltinti\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Former Serie A official Graziano Cesari showed the video on TV last night and said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calciomercato.com\/liste\/milan-roma-clamoroso-l-arbitro-guida-da-un-calcio-a-saelemaekers-che-gli-esulta-in-faccia-dopo-il-rigore-parato-da-maignan-a-dybala\/blt4f93b1d91607d4cb#cs6fa39642f50ed674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Calciomercato.com<\/a>): \u201cGuida made a serious error, it\u2019s an unacceptable behaviour for a referee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could have booked Saelemaekers, but he didn\u2019t and really crossed the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Ora mi spiegate perch\u00e9 Guida redarguisce Saelemaker che esulta?<br \/>Non si pu\u00f2 nemmeno pi\u00f9 esultare? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3ATqpdJm3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Z3ATqpdJm3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Piani Mino (@PianiMino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PianiMino\/status\/1985105814391259608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">November 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN, ITALY &#8211; OCTOBER 24: Henrik Meister of Pisa SC is challenged by Alexis Saelemaekers of AC Milan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-241495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}