Leao unlocks in the 46th minute, after Hernandez missed a penalty. La Spezia comes out in the last half hour: first draw with Agudelo then close with Gyasi. A sensational mistake by referee Serra denies Messias the 2-1 goal. The referee in tears after the match. The Hague apologizes to Milan
From unbridled joy to the hottest disappointment. Milan-Spezia all in the last, crazy, three minutes. Messias scores the phantom goal with a formidable left-footed shot at the corner but the referee has just stopped play due to Bastoni’s intervention from behind on Rebic. The ball goes to the Brazilian and Mr. Marco Serra, a young referee of the Turin section, slips on the classic banana peel, whistling without waiting for the development of the action and nullifying the three-point shot of the Pioli gang. The Rossonere sliding doors: that shot would be from three points and Milan would lead the table, an ephemeral record given that Inter must recover a game, but substantial before two very severe tests, Juventus and the derby. And instead Serra’s serious error gives another truth: the Devil, deprived of the 2-1, launches on the assault and the rivals, lucid and organized, hit him and sink on the counterattack with Gyasi in the 96 ‘after the goal. Agudelo who had equalized that of Leao.
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Spezia wins in comeback thanks to the Serra effect the third consecutive away game, while Milan fall for the first time in the new year. A defeat conditioned by the heavy oversight of the referee, who immediately realizes the mistake and apologizes to the Rossoneri on the pitch, especially Rebic, who takes his face in his hands as if to say what have you been up to? Serra would like to go back, but you can’t: there are those in his locker room who saw him in tears. Now the referee risks being blocked for two rounds, while The Hague – the Association of Referees – has apologized to Milan.
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Milan furious and stunned, but if they remained second in the standings e he threw away a golden opportunity even for his mistakes. Some matches a team that wants the Scudetto has to find a way to win them. But not the usual team: Diaz runs in circles, Follow
hardly ever triggers the turbo e misses a penalty, Ibra does not record. There is no conviction in front of the goal. Only Leao inspired. The unstoppable Portuguese, shots, dribbling and at the end the lob in the 46th minute of the first half that breaks the balance after three miracles by Provedel.
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The goal is not a release. In the second half you wait for the Rossoneri sprint and instead, after another great save by Provedel, the third with your feet, on Saelemaekers, you find the Spezia, determined and ferocious, commanded by Thiago Motta. Agudelo’s graft was decisive who, within six minutes, collects Green’s cross from the left and signs the draw. Milan on the ground, unable to get up. He would have time to redeem himself, but he would need clarity and determination. And instead the Spezia to become dangerous with the restarts. The peer seems written. Until the sensational recovery when the Devil, perhaps driven by despair, finds energy and courage. The goal disallowed, onecross of Ibrahimovic
, a couple of scrums before the fatal restart. A black night. The fatal spice. A nightmare.
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Last year at the Peak it ended the same way
and the 2-0 for Spezia had launched Inter towards the Scudetto. This time not quite so, but certain defeats in the league economy weigh on. Pioli knows this very well. We have been wronged. The error occurred and was serious. In the end, I struggled to calm my players down. The referee whistled a half-foul on Rebic, who perhaps wasn’t there and did it when the ball was already in Messias. But we have our faults because we had to be more concrete, lucid and attentive. The first half was not supposed to end 1-0….
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