A match within a match between Dusan Vlahovic and Yerry Mina: continuous trash-talking which certainly did not leave the Serbian striker calm.
But the defender spared no one, neither the public nor other Juventus players.
A few words reserved for the pitch, body-to-body contrasts and as the minutes passed even real provocations: the Cagliari defender in fact went in front of Vlahovic in the 73rd minute after an opponent’s mistake.
The most striking opportunity was the one missed by Vlahovic completely alone in front of Scuffet: his shot went wide with the whole goal available and Mina started laughing immediately afterwards.
At the end Vlahovic falls in the area on a high ball, the referee lets it continue and the Colombian player approaches Vlahovic laughing and miming with his hands: “But what are you doing?”.
Interviewed post-match, Mina said: “What happened on the pitch with Vlahovic is part of the game. I’m too good friends with Juan Cuadrado and I didn’t like how he left. That’s why I’m a little pissed off.”
Yerry Mina didn’t make friends with the Allianz Stadium either as just after the 1-1 goal he was booked by the referee for provoking the crowd. At the moment of the warning, Mina can be seen miming the “photography gesture” towards the Juventus fans.
In the final minutes there are also disagreements between Mina and Yildiz: with the game stopped the central defender puts himself in front of the ball with the sole intention of slowing down the game. At that point Yildiz pushes him from behind to make him fall, the Cagliari player crumples on the ball and the attacker pushes him again.
Definitely a performance from a pure, old-fashioned defender, he certainly used all the tools at his disposal to prevent Juventus from playing calmly.
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