At 1-0 for Italy, the Italy defender knocks out Memic as he launches towards the goal: red card inevitable
Everything had started in the right direction: Kean’s goal after 15′. Not a perfect Italy, far from it, but certainly on track. Then the red card to Alessandro Bastoni: the defender intervenes late and as the last man on Memic, who anticipates him and lets himself be overwhelmed by the blue’s slide. The red card was immediately drawn without hesitation by referee Turpin in the 42nd minute. Thus continues Bastoni’s bad year, which began with the simulation during Inter-Juve which led to Kalulu’s expulsion. The forced substitution of Gattuso was inevitable: Retegui out and Gatti in, in view of a second half with only one objective, that of not conceding a goal. An error that only fuels the debate on Bastoni’s state of form and his mental stability in moments of maximum pressure.
