Handball Vlahovic as well as Rabiot in Inter-Juventus. Inzaghi protests: «Unacceptable». Allegri: “Subjective” – ​​Corriere.it

Almost four minutes of control at the Var, while San Siro ignites. Juventus has just taken the lead in an action born and developed by Rabiot, who in the stoppage seems to touch the ball with his arm. The referee Chiffi remains motionless in the field, in the chaos that he builds, in connection with Lissone. He doesn’t go to check on the monitor, he trusts his immediate judgment and what they tell him in the headset: validates Kostic’s goal while around him the Italian derby takes the form of a rodeo. Barella protests vehemently (not for the first time), and is cautioned. Inzaghi struggles to hold back, Lukaku goes face to face with Bremer after an energetic entry. Allegri is obviously more seraphic, he looks for some water, takes Locatelli aside and guides him with extra indications.

Rabiot’s (alleged) hand ball

It is the episode that decides the game. In the 23rd minute of the first half, Juventus went on the counterattack: Rabiot controls the ball and seems to help himself with his left arm, he exchanges it with Vlahovic, then serves Kostic who puts in the winning diagonal. The magnifying glass is fixed on the French stop. Chiffi doesn’t go to the monitor because the available images don’t show a clear and evident error
. The controversy also mounts because Rabiot, a week ago, had become the protagonist of a similar episode against Sampdoria: dubious control that precedes the shot that crashes Stankovic’s team.

Vlahovic’s hand?

But there is another doubt, which concerns Vlakhovic and which was shown by the pictures of Pressing. At the start of the action, the Serbian’s arm is tightly attached to his body, but when Rabiot passes him the ball with an acrobatic left-handed winger, the Juventus forward controls it partly with his chest and partly with the inside of his right arm during the run. An accidental touch or fix the trajectory of the ball?

The fury of Inzaghi

Inzaghi is furious in the post match:

«Something very serious has happened. Conceding a goal like this at the time of the Var is unacceptable. That there are no images is a further disrespect”. On the touch of the arm, the Nerazzurri coach comments dryly: “There’s no need to talk about it, they say there are no images and I’ve seen at least twenty different ones.” Inter takes a step back, according to Inzaghi, due to a “spoiled match”. Simone admits that in the championship the performance is different, worse, than in the Champions League, but in this case “the mistakes came from the referees, not from our players”.

Allegri’s version

Of the opposite opinion Allegri: «It wasn’t an objective episode, it’s a subjective case. We are gentlemen, we do not mess. The referee’s decisions must be accepted», the words of the Juventus coach, who left the field four minutes before 90′ ​​because he was too nervous, «I risked getting kicked out. There was no need for me anymore, the team was defending well». In the final sparks, with Juve celebrating in the corner occupied by their fans and Inter getting angry, Paredes and D’Ambrosio were also expelled.