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I'm not saying that Totti's penalty should have been retaken or that Napoli's one should have been retaken. But you can't blame Napoli fans for feeling hard done by when a ref suddenly decides to go for a strict interpretation of a rarely enforced rule. And I don't disagree with how you say...

They were both such clear penalties that the ref couldn't not give them.

Not an unreasonable observation and one that occurred to me at the time.

Predictably poor game from Juve - I said that I thought playing Estigarribia instead of Quagliarella would leave Juve with a lack of guile. More generally, Juve were terribly impatient. They just kept launching themselves forward, rather than actually building up and trying to move Roma...

Yeah, but I think that was why the ref gave Juve the throw. Doesn't look like a foul throw to me.

Ta. Don't see how they can put any sort of accurate number on how many Juve fans have tickets for the Roma end. Still, Juve must be getting a big chunk of the Curva Nord if the official allocation is ~10,000.

The throw was taken from the wrong position.

Where did you hear that? Yeah, that was a great game. Full Olimpico, Juve's first big game back and an action packed game. I like Trezeguet's goal more than Iaquinta's one, though; Trezeguet's was just a really good goal.

Given Bonucci's inclination to get square on to forwards, making it easy for them to beat him, I'd think Lamela is more likely to make Bonucci look stupid. If Totti plays trequartista, it should make life easier for Juve when they have the ball. It'll be the first game for a while that Pirlo...

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