{"id":257050,"date":"2025-09-26T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257050\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:32:11","slug":"official-chiffi-named-referee-for-milan-vs-napoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257050\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Chiffi named referee for Milan vs. Napoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniele Chiffi will officiate the Milan-Napoli clash this Sunday, and based on his record with both teams, you can understand the decision.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milan will be looking to build on their four-game winning streak (three if you only count the league) against Napoli on Sunday. As the Rossoneri are just three points behind the Partenopei currently, it\u2019s a game that will mean a lot for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that AIA, the Italian Referees Association, take into consideration when deciding the referee for the game. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aia-figc.it\/news\/serie-a-enilive-designazioni-5a-giornata-25735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">they announced<\/a> that the 40-year-old Daniele Chiffi is the chosen one.<\/p>\n<p>Milan\u2019s record with Chiffi<\/p>\n<p>Taking a look at the numbers, Chiffi has officiated 13 games involving Milan since the 2019-20 season, when he made his \u2018Rossoneri debut\u2019. Milan won 9 of these games, while three ended in draws and one in defeat (Spezia away from home).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1201\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ac-milan-v-udinese-calcio-serie-a-38.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-281504 has-webp\" alt=\"Referee Daniele Chiffi\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1201\/750;max-width:1201px\"\/>Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>In terms of controversial decisions, the most recent call dates back to the Milan-Udinese clash in the fall of last season. Tijjani Reijnders was handed a straight red card for a supposed challenge on Sandi Lovric, deemed as a denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>However, the replays showed that there was barely any contact involved, while <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/watch-milan-furious-nasty-stamp-chukwueze\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a nasty stamp on Samuel Chukwueze<\/strong><\/a> was left unpunished. Chiffi did officiate two Milan games after that, though, more specifically the draws against Juventus and Inter (0-0 and 1-1).<\/p>\n<p>Napoli have a more positive record with the referee, having never lost with him in charge (also 13 games, but 11 wins and 2 draws).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniele Chiffi will officiate the Milan-Napoli clash this Sunday, and based on his record with both teams, you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272741727394115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}