A heart-pounding comeback that is worth the record. The Milan flies to heaven after being in hell, going to win a game that, at one point, seemed lost. Instead, the championship Saturday certifies the fighting soul of a never tame Devil, capable of making up for the many absences with a commendable spirit, stronger than all adversity. Sure, on 3-2 final luck also had an impact, in the light of a decisive own goal that allowed the team to Pioli to complete the comeback, but Lady Luck, you know, rarely misses the target and this Milan harassed by injuries deserves at least the benefit of the doubt.
"In the first half, Verona were quicker than us and we were a bit unlucky on the first goal, but then we believed in it - the Rossoneri coach's analysis - I saw the right faces of the players at the end of the first half, we had to change step and we did it. It was a great test of maturity, I'm proud of the character of the team. The Scudetto? We think small, race after race."
Pioli is right to hit the key of humility, but he too knows well how his team is now a very credible candidate for the final victory. After all, matches like yesterday's show how Milan now has an inner strength typical of the greats, regardless of the players lined up. Yesterday the injured Maignan, Hernandez and Diaz were missing, plus Tonali and Ibrahimovic, who were rested in view of the Champions League: Rebic was added after just 36', who stopped due to an ankle problem.
The Rossoneri suffered from it, also because Hellas proved ruthless, going to take the 0-1 with Goats (7') and the 0-2 with Barak (24', penalty for a very dubious contact with Romagnoli). At the end of the first half, the Devil's first defeat in the league seemed to be done, but then, in the second, here was the turning point, signed first of all by the couple Leao-Giroud, assist man and goalscorer respectively, for the 1-2 which rekindled the hopes of all of San Siro (59'). There another match began, with Milan putting their foot down while awaiting the decisive episodes, which arrived in the 76th minute with Kessie (penalty after a foul by Faraoni on Castillejo) and in the 78th minute with… Gunter, author of an unfortunate own goal on a poisonous cross by the same Spaniard.
The 3-2 final certifies the leadership in the standings, albeit waiting for Napoli, but also a +5 on theInter defending champion, defeated by Lazio at the end of a match full of controversies. The other great news of the day, in fact, concerns the match in Rome, which ended with a 3-1 for the biancocelesti which can have very important implications for the continuation of the championship. Discussions were not lacking and they refer to what happened in the 81st minute, on the result of 1-1, when Lazio found the overtaking goal with Felipe Anderson.
Le Inter protests they are based on failure Fairplay from Lazio, who continued the action despite Dimarco having remained on the ground, but appear totally unfounded for two reasons: first of all, Lautaro, instead of throwing the ball out, concluded the first action by kicking towards Reina's goal; moreover, the regulation is clear, saying that only the referee can stop the game when a player remains down (except for headshots, but this is not the case).
Once under Inter he lost his head, wasting his last energies on excessive controversies, almost as if he had given up on losing the match, which he then saw the goal of Milinkovic-Savic as an epitaph (91'). "We've lost our heads, the referee doesn't stop the game and the opponent doesn't put it out – he sighed Inzaghi – The referee could also have stopped the game, but I wouldn't dwell on this but on the fact that a team like ours must bring home another result”.
Maurizio is in the opposite mood Sarri, smiling again a fundamental success, which cancels the bad defeat in Bologna before the break. “When Dimarco is down, Inter goes to shoot on goal, they were the ones who had to throw the ball out – his thought – The situation is clear, they shot and legitimized everything, it means they wanted to continue playing. These situations are seen only in Italy, in England the teams also play with a player down".
The episode in question monopolized everything, overshadowing a good and hard-fought match, with Inter leading for over an hour thanks to Perisic's penalty (12', foul by Hysaj on Barella) and Lazio back in race with Immobile, also from the penalty spot after a hand ball by Bastoni (64'). The rest has already been said, for an ending that certifies Inzaghi's first defeat in the league, as well as obviously the rebirth of Sarri's Lazio. Milan leaders, for their part, are enjoying it, waiting for Napoli to make their move.
