Massimiliano Allegri could only find one explanation for Juventus’s 2-1 defeat by Napoli. “Football was invented by the devil,” he said. “A badly-struck penalty but the ball winds up in the net, then [Daniele] Rugani misses from two metres out at the other end.”
Long-time observers had heard this turn of phrase before; the devil is one of Allegri’s go-to scapegoats. On a weekend that began with Lazio receiving three red cards in a brutally bad-tempered defeat to Milan, it made a refreshing change from talking about referees.
