Moggi Furious With Referee
Monday 8th January 2001
Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi has slammed the referee following his
side's 3-3 draw at home to Fiorentina, and claimed decisions that go against
his club are not being highlighted in the media.
Moggi claimed the Turin club should have been given two penalties during
Saturday's match and that the Viola's third goal was a foul.
Fiorentina grabbed the game's final goal to secure a point when Enrico
Chiesa's curling free-kick found its way into the net, but Moggi claimed
Angelo Di Livio pushed a Juve player aside in the wall. Referee Cesari saw
nothing wrong and gave the goal.
Moggi told Italian television: "It's incredible that the referee gave
Fiorentina the goal that made it 3-3. Di Livio made a foul on one of ours
player who was in the wall for the Fiorentina free-kick.
"And I can't understand why the referee didn't give us two penalties. The
first time he showed a yellow card to Filippo Inzaghi, and the second he
didn't give a foul either way, but Inzaghi didn't fall alone.
"If the referee had given us the decision, all the other teams, all the
newspapers and television stations would have screamed about a conspiracy to
help Juventus, but why doesn't anybody say anything now?"
Di Livio said of his push during the build-up for the third goal: "It wasn't
a thing we decided on in training. The free-kick of Chiesa was well angled,
and with my push I gave it half-a-meter more room to get through."
He added: "I didn't like the two dives from Inzaghi, he should have been
sent off for play acting, but I still have a lot of respect for him."
Meanwhile Juventus have confirmed that they expect to see Alessandro Del
Piero, who has been on the sidelines for a month, return to training by the
end of the week.
