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Beppe Marotta has called Francesco Totti’s post-Juventus-Roma assessment ‘unacceptable’, as he looks for a balanced reflection on yesterday.
The Bianconeri won Week 6’s top-of-the-table clash 3-2 at Juventus Stadium on Sunday evening, but post-match focus was on the award of the two penalties in the home side’s favour, and if players in an offside position interfered with play on Leonardo Bonucci’s late winner.
It was a series of events that had Roma captain Totti notably angry in his after-game interview with the media, with comments made that Juve’s director general then took exception to.
“There is great respect for a champion – it is understandable that there is bitterness for the defeat, but what he said is not acceptable,” Marotta commented late last night.
“Juventus in their history have paid for things that are not their fault, and where they have won they have done so legitimately and deservedly so.
“Episodes of doubt exist in every match. We must emphasise that Roma played a great game, just as Juventus did.
“It was not a good match from the technical point of view and the spectacle – it was a game played in the most competitive point of view, with great tension and nervousness on the part of the players on the field. Juventus have shown the willingness to get the win.
“They have won with a technical act of great weight in the final minutes, that certainly should be emphasised.
“Every year Juventus is singled out for situations that are unclear and non-transparent, but in reality I think that within a League the episodes of doubt compensate for themselves.
“In these three years we have won deservedly, with wide numerical advantages to demonstrate the technical and athletic difference to the runners-up.
“When I saw the first penalty assigned in our favour what came to my mind was the autumn of 2010, three seasons ago, exactly on 47 minutes in the first half of Juventus-Roma played at the Olimpico di Torino.
“The free-kick from Totti, Pepe in the wall, with the ball hitting the elbow which was slightly open and rasied, and the penalty awarded in the favour of Roma. Totti scored it and it is 1-1, game over.
“Rizzoli was the referee then and in 2010 awarded that penalty, just as in 2014 Rocchi gave this one.”