Fiorentina director Daniele Pradè said it will be ‘difficult to sleep tonight’ after defeat to Juventus. ‘Dusan Vlahovic was beaten up and I expected a penalty.’
The Viola were beaten by a stoppage-time Juan Cuadrado goal, but the game changed when Nikola Milenkovic received his second yellow card.
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“We were controlling the game, then the red card naturally made it difficult for us and at that point Juventus emerged,” Pradè told reporters.
“Other than Federico Chiesa hitting the crossbar, Juve barely threatened. We put in a great performance, I congratulate the lads and coach, but we return home with zero points and a great deal of regret.”
There was another incident that prompted controversy, as on the stroke of half-time there was a long wait for VAR to check a potential Danilo handball in the box.
“When we saw it again, I was convinced the referee would give a penalty. It was handball, but the referee opted to consider it involuntary.”
As well as being in a natural position, Danilo’s arm did not make his silhouette larger, as if the arm hadn’t been there, the ball would’ve struck his chest.
That wasn’t the end of Pradè’s complaints about the refereeing in Turin, as both Milenkovic and Lucas Martinez-Quarta will be suspended against Milan.
“Vlahovic was beaten up from start to finish, but that’s football. The incredible thing is that we received two yellow cards for fouls in the Juventus half.
“Martinez-Quarta played a top level game, he is becoming even more fundamental for us. We will be forced to play against Milan without the two first-choice centre-backs.
“I am sure Fiorentina will emerge in the end with the fruits of our hard work, because we play good football. It’ll be difficult to sleep tonight, but from Monday we’ll try to do better against Milan.”
Scenes in Turin!! ⚫️⚪️
Juan Cuadrado comes off the bench to give Juventus victory over Fiorentina in stoppage time! 😅
A brilliant finish from the tightest of angles against his former club! pic.twitter.com/7scVLYSEgp
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) November 6, 2021
So, every single team in serie A always controls every game they play with Juventus, and they should always win if it wasn’t for referring.
refereeing
Maybe you would sleep much better, dear Daniele, if you did what Italiano asked you to do in the summer and bought the proper right winger and a second striker to sub Vlahovic.
This team has ideas but is obviously constrained on a technical level and that’s clearly a result of your incompetent work on a summer market. But of course it’s easier to blame referees.
The same penalties Juventus are receiving are not being called the other way.
It’s weird that almost same situation of a ball to hand will get called in a Lazio v Inter match but will be ignored if Juve is playing.
lol….
before he goes to sleep, he need to watch the 4 foul Sottil make and be thankfull none of them got yellow
poisoning the whole league because your team isn`t good enough happened once before using the sponsor and `lost` wiretaps that never reversed the decision and should always have.serie a has never recovered as people just don`t want to watch the pure poison where a team is not allowed to win. keep going to put the final nail in the coffin, we are in 8th! 8th place! JDS (Juventus Derangement Syndrome) is getting waaay out of hand.
Guys its like this every game, 9 years of juve domination make them more than just angry, it become frustration.
First they tackle with intention of injury, then they cry about refs and imaginary penalties, and then coach or president make disgusting comments; welcome to serie a.
This happened at least 5 times juve won this season; acidentally, juve have 5 wins.
So All teams wanna beat Juve even when we are not on top the table ….go and sit down
Hmmm this guy is a sore loser…