In an article published in the post match of Parma-Milan we tried to reconstruct, with the images available, the episode that led to the expulsion of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who had addressed the referee Maresca saying “It seems strange to me, eh?”. That was the only clearly audible and understandable sentence.
As usual, in the late evening the Lega Serie A published the highlights of this afternoon’s match on its YouTube channel, and from this video (which you can find who, we advise you to use headphones) another sentence emerges that the Swede pronounces to the address of the race director. Zlatan, who has evidently been arguing with the referee for a while, says twice (starting at 02:14): “Go home if you don’t feel like it.” A few seconds pass, Maresca whistles the foul on Calhanoglu, Ibra pronounces the now established: “It seems strange to me, huh?” and is expelled.
However, the consideration we feel we can make, even in the light of this new audio, is that “Go home if you don’t feel like it” and “It seems strange to me, huh?” are not two sentences to be punished with an expulsion, not in a Serie A match and not in a match that up to that moment had not pointed out any nervousness whatsoever. In any case, Milan have decided that they will appeal, we will see in the next few hours if Mr. Maresca from Naples will take a step back or continue to claim that he was offended by the Swede.
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