Category: <b>General</b><br><br>Juventus Coach Fabio Capello took his frustration out at last night’s Italian Cup exit to Roma on the match official. "Dondarini got it wrong," he said of Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s sending off.
Although Capello’s side won 1-0 on the night, courtesy of an Adrian Mutu penalty, Roma held on to go through to the semi-finals on away goals in an ill-tempered match that saw two players sent off.
With a considerable amount of bad blood already apparent between the two sides, following Francesco Totti’s disparaging comments about Capello in the build-up to this League fixture in November and Juve’s subsequent 4-1 on that occasion still rankling Roma, the ill-feeling spilled over early on in this match.
After just 19 minutes Ibrahimovic was sent off for kicking a ball at Totti after he had been hacked down by Pavel Nedved, while Olivier Dacourt also received his marching orders for reacting to the big Swede as a scuffle broke out.
Capello, though, took exception to the decision, claiming that Ibra is now being targeted by match officials.
"I never talk about referees," he said. "But this time Dondarini got it wrong. The sendings-off of Dacourt and Ibrahimovic were not right. You can’t take it out on Ibra every time when he hasn’t done anything."
Capello went on to explain that he felt the Bianconeri were unfortunate to get knocked out, but complimented his former side nonetheless.
"We played our game and I honestly think we were unlucky, given that Patrick Vieira hit the post," he added. "But in the end Roma played well and I’d like to congratulate them."
Luciano Spalletti’s side go from strength to strength. Their run of straight League wins has stretched to six while they have now gained revenge for the 4-1 defeat in Rome this season.
"I feared the worst after Mutu’s goal," he said. "But if we look at the balance of the tie over the 180 minutes I think we deserved to go through. It was a hard match and you could see how much we wanted it out there."
Spalletti, though, stopped short of criticising the referee, claiming instead that Dondarini had a good game.
"The match was becoming increasingly tetchy but we certainly weren’t the cause," he claimed.
"The sending off happened after a foul on Totti and then a ball kicked straight at him while he was on the ground – on the whole Dondarini refereed well."<br><br>Source: Fooball Italia
Although Capello’s side won 1-0 on the night, courtesy of an Adrian Mutu penalty, Roma held on to go through to the semi-finals on away goals in an ill-tempered match that saw two players sent off.
With a considerable amount of bad blood already apparent between the two sides, following Francesco Totti’s disparaging comments about Capello in the build-up to this League fixture in November and Juve’s subsequent 4-1 on that occasion still rankling Roma, the ill-feeling spilled over early on in this match.
After just 19 minutes Ibrahimovic was sent off for kicking a ball at Totti after he had been hacked down by Pavel Nedved, while Olivier Dacourt also received his marching orders for reacting to the big Swede as a scuffle broke out.
Capello, though, took exception to the decision, claiming that Ibra is now being targeted by match officials.
"I never talk about referees," he said. "But this time Dondarini got it wrong. The sendings-off of Dacourt and Ibrahimovic were not right. You can’t take it out on Ibra every time when he hasn’t done anything."
Capello went on to explain that he felt the Bianconeri were unfortunate to get knocked out, but complimented his former side nonetheless.
"We played our game and I honestly think we were unlucky, given that Patrick Vieira hit the post," he added. "But in the end Roma played well and I’d like to congratulate them."
Luciano Spalletti’s side go from strength to strength. Their run of straight League wins has stretched to six while they have now gained revenge for the 4-1 defeat in Rome this season.
"I feared the worst after Mutu’s goal," he said. "But if we look at the balance of the tie over the 180 minutes I think we deserved to go through. It was a hard match and you could see how much we wanted it out there."
Spalletti, though, stopped short of criticising the referee, claiming instead that Dondarini had a good game.
"The match was becoming increasingly tetchy but we certainly weren’t the cause," he claimed.
"The sending off happened after a foul on Totti and then a ball kicked straight at him while he was on the ground – on the whole Dondarini refereed well."<br><br>Source: Fooball Italia
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