Two points lost for Juventus and one point earned for the Cagliari. Considering the match as a whole and based on their respective ranking ambitions, the 1-1 draw at the Stadium could be read like this. It’s a shame that the Sardinians came close to winning at the end with the post hit by Obert: the great merit of the guests, who kept the golden point close, was precisely that of having believed in it until the end.
Unlucky Luperto, Nicola’s plan works. It’s difficult to blame too much on the central defender, even if – regulation in hand – the touch of the hands is a lightness and the judgment cannot be fully sufficient. What remains, more than anything, is a near miss and an unfortunate touch. In the end, it doesn’t even have much of an impact: an hour of defending and half an hour of looking for an equaliser, the island coach’s plan worked.
The words of Davide Nicola: “The draw allows us to go from 5 to 6, scoring points is always important for us. Scoring points means progressing and gaining confidence, but at the same time we want to be happy, but evaluating it as a micro-episode, one match doesn’t make you reach the “objective – underlines the Sardinian coach, and then focuses on the penalty – those who know me know that I never judge the referee’s actions, but from a technical point of view he doesn’t convince me due to a question of biomechanics, if I have to compete a ball it’s obvious that I use my arms for momentum and then they put their hands on my shoulders, it shouldn’t be forgotten. Many coaches are of the same opinion, let’s discuss this fact, so if you don’t give me a foul on Gatti’s hands, you can’t even give the penalty. Then you clearly accept the referee’s decision. The focal point is precisely the intervention in the athlete’s biomechanics. It’s impossible to give a penalty if I suffer an intervention from behind that forces me to fall.”