The final ten minutes and the two goals scored against Inter at San Siro were not enough to make the player happy Turin. The Granata, ten down from the twentieth, show off a team performance, with the character of Bull. But they still lose, for the second consecutive time in the championship: at the Meazza it ends 3-2, with the Italian champions smiling.
Maripan 4, Zapata goal and knockout. Complicating the evening for his teammates is the Chilean defender, already a negative protagonist in the final part of the match lost against Lazio. The killer intervention on Thuram, who was then forced to make a substitution during the match, earned the central defender a red card and a four on his report card. At Torino, a match played almost entirely in numerical inferiority. It’s not the most negative thing of the evening: in the finale, Duvan Zapata ends up on the ground after a speed duel. He touches his knee, leaves in tears on a stretcher: the fear is of a ruptured cruciate ligament.
The words of Paolo Vanoli: “We have to wait for the instrumental tests, keeping our fingers crossed. Duvan is an important player for us. Behind, although we moved well as a team, we can’t concede two goals like this – said the Granata coach, today disqualified and replaced by the assistant Godinho on the bench – the spirit of the final? It’s my spirit and it’s the spirit of the value of this club. It’s a very important thing, I’ve always fought for this and tonight they really showed it, with great strength going to press Inter at home, at 3-2, means that you are fine and that, if you have a clear head, you can do important things. We are in a process in which, as in the first twenty minutes, we have become players thinkers. We need to find that fluidity that we found in ten of us in the last ten minutes.”