Top Juventus officials had to be escorted out of the stands as Inter fans took their celebrations too far after Piotr Zielinski’s winner.
The Derby d’Italia turned out to be a fiery affair, and it all stemmed from a costly refereeing mistake towards the end of the first half.
Piotr Zielinski (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)
While the result was still 1-1, Federico La Penna showed Pierre Kalulu a second yellow for blocking Alessandro Bastoni’s run.
However, the replays proved that the French defender hardly touched his Italian counterpart. Former Serie A referee Luca Marelli argued that VAR should have intervened to send off Bastoni for a simulation, as he was already on a yellow.
This episode was followed by a heated confrontation in the tunnel between La Penna, on one hand, and Luciano Spalletti and the Juventus officials on the other.
However, this wasn’t the end of the ugly rows in this chaotic showdown, as a circulating video on social media shows Juventus CEO Damien Comolli and the club’s Technical Director Francois Modesto receiving insults from the Inter supporters who surrounded them in the stands following Zielinski’s last-gasp goal.
