But please. Other than the derby of + Italy, this miserable Inter-Juve! For how it ended (1-1), with Dybala reaching a draw in extremis on a penalty after Dzeko’s initial goal, the usual sad metaphor of the mountain giving birth to the mouse comes to mind.
A mouse that scares no one because, in the end, this faded draw is good only for Milan and Napoli who now lead the table together at 25. Pioli’s young devils having won in Bologna in the rambling way we know, Napoli braking with a modest zero to zero with Roma, which went to the news more for the expulsions of Mourinho and Spalletti than for play and substance.
Naples and Milan, top in condominium
It is the first time, after nine days, that the Neapolitans do not win. That’s right because if Napoli hits a post and a crossbar and sees a goal canceled for offside, Roma wastes a great chance with Abraham. Napoli maintains the top, but must share it with Milan. Returning to San Siro, one thing must be said: Allegri must light a candle to all the saints of football who, despite his crazy choices (Dybala and Chiesa on the bench until 65 ‘), in the end allow him to bring back at least one point. Which is better than nothing, but what an effort …
Allegri saved by the Var
After four consecutive victories, it seemed time to take off, but Allegri’s team remains nailed to the ground. Its strength is the defense, held up with wire by Chiellini and Bonucci, old skins of a thousand battles. Much better Inter, more team, which, however, has a flaw: not to close the games that must be closed. And so the mess arrives, perhaps born of a hasty choice by Inzaghi, too worried about replacing the yellow card Perisic, the most effervescent up to that moment of Inter. In place of Perisic enters the dazed Dumfries who baptizes his entrance giving an awkward kick to Alex Sandro at the edge of the area. The referee Mariani does not blow the whistle, but the Var points out that the foul is there and must be punished with a penalty. While angry Inzaghi is expelled, Dybala achieves mercilessly removing Allegri from the quagmire of a new fall.
Bernardeschi when do you replace him?
What to say? The rigor is there: it is one of those who are given today at the time of the Var. What is not there, however, is precisely Juventus who remedy a draw without convincing anyone. Game? And who saw it. Madama is a faded creature, neither haughty nor commoner, neither creative nor worker. And if you leave jewels like Chiesa and Dybala on the bench, it fades completely. Allegri will have his good reasons, but they are reasons that only he understands. Also deplorable was the decision to allow Bernadeschi (with a sore shoulder) to stay off the pitch for several minutes before being replaced. Dzeko’s goal, which puts a ball thrown against the crossbar by Calhnoglu on the net, arrives just when Juve is ten.
The expelled coaches become a case
The ninth day is also that of the expulsions of the coaches. In addition to that of Inzaghi, those of Mourinho (for protests) and Spalletti should be noted, who at the end ironically applauded the referee Massa. Gasperini, sent out for protests in Atalanta-Udinese (1-1), also railed against the referee. “The referees have to put their faces on it,” shouted the puzzled Gasp, because the referee did not explain the reason for the expulsion. It is true that Alfredo Trentalange, the president of the Italian Referees Association, has announced the utmost transparency on the decisions of his subordinates. But does a referee, on the pitch, always have to explain everything? Do not be surprised then if football fields become chicken coops where everyone says whatever. A match is not an assembly. If everyone talks, goodnight. And as an old leader of the PCI, Giancarlo Pajetta, said, “before you leave, please, turn off the light”.