Juve held by Salernitana after VAR check and four red cards
Turin, Italy - Juventus came back from two goals down at half-time to draw an incident-packed match with Salernitana 2-2 on Sunday as Atalanta gave up the Serie A lead after a 1-1 draw with Cremonese.
Massimiliano Allegri’s Juve drew for the fourth time this season but the point shared doesn’t tell the story of a match which ended with four red cards being shown after Arkadiusz Milik’s last-gasp winner was ruled out following a VAR check.
The Poland striker sent the Allianz Stadium into raptures with a glancing header five minutes into stoppage time, but the goal was chalked off for Leonardo Bonucci being offside and interfering with play.
Bonucci had levelled on the rebound from his own missed penalty just two minutes previously to set up a grandstand finish which ended in farce.
Milik was given a second yellow card for removing his shirt after scoring what he thought was the decisive goal and then Juan Cuadrado, Salernitana defender Federico Fazio and Allegri were all sent off as tensions flared on the sidelines.
Allegri later asked to see footage which featured Antonio
Candreva, who was near the corner flag and appeared to be playing everyone onside.
“We haven’t seen that video, what if he keeps everyone onside? We don’t have that video, nobody has it, so I don’t know,” he said on DAZN.
A match that ended in chaos began with Salernitana putting in a superb opening 45 minutes which had them two goals to the good through Candreva’s tap-in and a Krzysztof Piatek penalty on the stroke of half-time.
Salernitana are 10th on seven points, three behind unbeaten Juve who are struggling with injuries and form in the early part of the season.
Monaco beat Lyon
In French Ligue 1, Monaco claimed a 2-1 victory over Lyon on Sunday for a second straight league win to put their disappointing start to the season behind them.
Philippe Clement’s side only won one of their first five league matches this term but have bounced back since a 4-2 home loss to Troyes, beating Nice last weekend and Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League in midweek.