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Redirect to canonical URL gives hreflang error in Google Webmaster Tools

In my website the root page https://www.amolelingue.com/ has 301 redirect to canonical English URL https://www.amolelingue.com/en, which has two alternate versions (/it and /fi).

I'm getting following two errors in International Targeting of Search Console of Google Webmaster Tools:

  • "no return tags", originating URL "/", alternate URL "https://www.amolelingue.com/en"
  • "no return tags", originating URL "/", alternate URL "https://www.amolelingue.com/it"

Each of the three pages (/en /it /fi) lists itself as canonical version and also has hreflang-links to all three pages. For example English version has:

<link rel='canonical' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/en'>
<link rel='alternate' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/en' hreflang='en'>
<link rel='alternate' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/it' hreflang='it'>
<link rel='alternate' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/fi' hreflang='fi'>

Nowhere do I mention "/" as canonical URL, so why am I getting errors about it not having return tags? Have I done some error here or is Google Webmaster Tools reporting this incorrectly?