Thiago Motta sustained a head bump throughout final night time’s intension Champions League contest between RB Leipzig and Juventus.
The 42-year-old led the Bianconceri in the direction of an unbelievable come-from-behind victory. Regardless of their numerical drawback, the supervisor urged his gamers to go ahead, and so they had been finally rewarded for his or her bravery.
Dusan Vlahovic and Francisco Conceicao scored fabulous objectives to show the consequence upside-down and earn the Previous Girl a well-known 3-2 win on German soil.
However sadly for Juventus, Gleison Bremer might have suffered an ACL damage, whereas Nico Gonzalez picked up a muscular downside.
Surprisingly, even Motta himself didn’t go away the pitch unscathed, arriving on the post-match interviews with a bump on the fitting aspect of his brow.
When requested about it, the 42-year-old playfully blamed his defender Federico Gatti.
“Federico Gatti elbowed me,” joked the Juventus boss in his post-match press convention through Tuttosport.
“It ought to have been an expulsion had they seen it, however at the moment it’s higher to not speak an excessive amount of about VAR,” added Motta in an apparent dig on the officiating staff following a contest that witnessed a number of doubtful episodes.
In actuality, the Juventus defender unintentionally hit the supervisor throughout the wild celebrations that ensued following Conceicao’s winner.
Motta additionally claimed that the hand gesture he made whereas pointing in the direction of his head was additionally directed in the direction of the match officers.
“It’s higher that I don’t say a lot about this gesture. I used to be additionally asking for focus from the third staff (the officiating staff).”
