Football, bad ending with ultras violence in Turin. Roma and Como in Champions League, Milan and Juve out
Truly a sad epilogue. Worthy of a mediocre championship where, apart from Inter's exciting solo ride, the violence of the ultras (but how many years has it been going on uselessly repeating this?) mingles with the verdicts for Champions and salvation.
And in fact, although some of these results are surprising (Roma and Como in the Champions League with Inter and Napoli), precedence must necessarily be given to the violence in Turin where, due to the injury of a Juventus ultras, who was operated on at the Molinette Hospital for serious head trauma, and the threat of the Juventus fans themselves to invade the pitch, the Turin-Juventus derby started at 9.45pm. The match ended 2-2, leaving the Bianconeri in sixth place and therefore out of Europe. Vlahovic's double was answered by goals, both from corners, by Casadei and Adams.
More astonishing, but not so much, was Milan's resounding home thud against Cagliari (1-2), who, like Juventus, lost their most prestigious bonus by slipping into the Europa League. A total crash, the Rossoneri's, in front of its public as bitter as it was angry. And it could not be otherwise. In the last four games at the San Siro, Allegri's team - at the end of March the closest to Inter in the race for the Scudetto - collected only one point. A nightmarish ending, that of the Diavolo, where it was not even enough to take the lead after a few seconds with Saelemaeker. Well organised, Cagliari first equalised with Borrelli and then, in the second half, took the lead with Rodriguez. And there would even have been a 3-1 lead if Maignan in the final minutes had not put in a now useless patch.
San Siro, in front of this umpteenth slap in the face, immediately emptied, protesting against the company's top management, from Gerry Cardinale, Red Bird's number one, to the managing director Furlani (already leaving), to Ibrahimovic and president Scaroni. Particularly targeted is the former Rossoneri striker who, for the World Cup, will be a TV commentator for Fox. The team is falling apart and he, the great Ibra, is going to be a phenomenon on television. In this debacle, where in any case the greatest responsibility lies with Cardinale and the entire management team, Allegri also ends up in the storm. He has governed this Milan that inexplicably collapsed at the decisive moment. A noisy flop where, for the umpteenth time, we have to start all over again.
Allegri and Spalletti, in this sense, are united by the same severe sentence: that of having once again failed. In different ways, of course, but now two of the most charismatic coaches in our league are cornered. Any revolution is possible. Because even Juventus, as a club, hasn't got one right for years. In an endless merry-go-round, it has changed managers and coaches, buying mediocre players with little personality. If we think of the crisis in our football, Juve and Milan are the most obvious expression of this. If Inter had one merit, apart from playing better and winning the 21st Scudetto, it was that of keeping the bar straight in difficult moments, like last year after the Champions League mauling. You have to maintain a direction, a project, an idea that neither Milan nor Juventus have been able to find for years. now we are at the reckoning, hoping that something good will come out of this disaster. It is said, when things go wrong, that crises are also opportunities. Not at Milan and Juventus, however, where they keep falling back into the same mistakes.
