An unprecedented fact for Max emerges after the match lost against Lazio. An event that has never happened before in the career of the Livorno coach and which finds a curious parallel with a precedent involving a former assistant of Sarri.
Allegri out in the round of 16 of the Italian Cup: an unprecedented event in the coach’s career
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The defeat of theOlympic on Thursday December 4, 2025 (Lazio-Milan 1-0) marks a statistically historic point in the career of Massimiliano Allegri.
For the first time In fact, the coach from Livorno has been coming since he has been coaching eliminated in the round of 16 of the Italian Cup. A surprising fact considering his longevity at the highest level and his usually solid and successful performance in competition.
Lazio’s decisive goal Sarrisigned by Zaccagni, has therefore produced an unprecedented result in the career of the AC Milan coach.
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Max’s most negative precedent? We need to go back to the 2009/2010 season
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To find an elimination of Allegri even earlier in the Italian Cup we need to even go back to 2009/2010 season.
The match was decided by a goal from the Czech striker Jaroslav Sedivecan episode that has remained to this day as one of the very rare slips of the Livornese in the national cup.
The plots: Luca Gotti, Sarri, Allegri and a thread that unites 2009 and 2025
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The 2009 match against Triestina hides a curious connection with the elimination achieved in 2025 against Lazio: Triestina’s coach was Luca Gottiwho in subsequent years would also work in Maurizio Sarri’s technical staffthe very coach who eliminated Allegri in the round of 16 in the match at the Olimpico.
A circle that closes: two eliminations in the Italian Cup, sixteen years apart from each other, with an unexpected technical link between the opposing benches.
The fall in the round of 16 in December 2025 represents a rare episode for Massimiliano Allegri, who in the Italian Cup has almost always overcome this phase of the competition since he has been coaching.
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