Italiano: ‘Fiorentina frustrated, angry and hurt’

Vincenzo Italiano felt ‘pissed off, indignant and harm’ by the defeat to Lazio with the final kick of the sport, however refused to let Fiorentina off the hook with the penalty incident.

The Viola knew {that a} victory right here would ship them clear into fourth place, leapfrogging each Napoli and Atalanta.

They’d the higher of the primary half, as Lucas Beltran had a objective disallowed for handball and hit the woodwork, however after the break Lazio hit again and compelled a sequence of saves from Pietro Terracciano.

With the final transfer of the sport, Matias Vecino’s header struck the arm of Nikola Milenkovic from point-blank vary and the referee instantly pointed to the spot.

The defender’s arm was raised, however the ball struck him proper on the high of the arm, mere inches from the ‘protected’ space of the shoulder.

“Naturally, defeat is irritating as a result of Fiorentina put in an amazing efficiency, allowed Lazio little or no and it was just about the sport we needed to see. Dropping like that’s not proper,” Italiano advised Sky Sport Italia.

“We all know these conditions, we work on them and should be way more concentrated within the ultimate minutes. We had performed with such sacrifice and high quality, it’s an actual pity to go away right here empty-handed.”

That Vecino header was the final kick of the sport and it’s not the primary time that Fiorentina have been caught napping in stoppages.

“When Serie A video games are nonetheless on 0-0 and the referee has not but blown the whistle, you possibly can nonetheless lose. I clarify to the lads each day that when the board goes up displaying damage time, that’s the worst second of the match. And we misplaced throughout that second, as a result of we weren’t attentive sufficient on a cross that we knew Lazio preferred to do.”

Jonathan Ikone had appeals for a penalty within the first half and Milenkovic was livid on the spot-kick, however Italiano gave them each quick shrift.

“Johnny had a number of alternatives to harm them right now, so he can’t complain. We can’t come right here and create this many scoring alternatives and never convert any of them, that makes me indignant.

“Milenkovic caught out an arm to ‘really feel’ his opponent and may’ve carried out it earlier, so he paid for that error. Sadly, it’s one other defeat after Empoli and we may’ve carried out way more in each these video games. It hurts me and I hope it hurts my gamers to lose in these circumstances after taking part in so properly.

“We had conditions to win, like Maxime Lopez who didn’t put sufficient perception into the end when he received the ball again. I actually really feel disillusioned, we now have no extra room to make errors now and it irritates me to be in that state of affairs.

“We’re not scoring anyplace close to as many targets as we must with our possibilities, it retains video games within the stability after which something can occur. What I’m glad to see was that Fiorentina got here right here to play our recreation and combat for the factors, that’s one thing we have to construct on.”