Alessandro Bastoni returns to talk after embarrassing episode

Aldo Seghedoni

The countdown to Inter’s Champions League match in Norway with Bodo Glimt has largely begun, but media attention is still focused on what happened Saturday night in the Italian derby played by the Nerazzurri with Juventus. Pierre Kalulu’s expulsion for added cautions, which was propitiated by a blatant simulation by Alessandro Bastoni that was not seen by referee La Penna and followed by the Nerazzurri central’s embarrassing jubilation over the opponent’s second yellow.

The controversy, refreshed by all kinds of statements from insiders and outsiders, has not subsided.

Inter has chosen to let Bastoni himself speak, who will stand alongside Cristian Chivu in a press conference on the eve of the match against the Scandinavians. The meeting with journalists will begin at 5:15 p.m.

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“Our position is very simple. We have noticed that there&#8217s been an outsized media takeover of what happened. The player himself has been the subject of a media pillory that goes beyond what happened. We are talking about a 26-year-old player, with more than 300 appearances in Serie A, who has never been the protagonist of sensational events. He is an asset of the national team and someone questions his convocation, it is an unfair harm” Beppe Marotta said Monday.

“We are facing a mistake by a young man, but who hasn&#8217t made one? If we are talking about simulations, we have been talking about it for 50 years: it is an ordinary fact, not extraordinary, certainly deplorable and related to concomitant factors such as Kalulu’s arm and the immediate whistle”, continued the same Marotta who, in fact, decided to make a shield against Bastoni himself.

The Pen is a young man who has made a mistake.

La Penna was put behind the blackboard by all the former referees who wanted to have their say. Among them Graziano Cesari, who has been on Mediaset’s commentary team for years. “He committed a blue-pencil error. The second yellow is nonexistent. There is no contact between Bastoni and Kalulu. There is distance. The Pen has a clear view but takes a glare. This was a genuine blunder. The referee’s mistake saves the Nerazzurri defender from the second caution for non-regulation behavior”. In short, for the Ligurian, the one to be sent to the shower was precisely the Nerazzurri, already cautioned like the Juventino.