AC Milan was fantastic in the first half of this encounter. They should have had three or four goals, as they rolled all over Juventus.
One perfectly valid goal, scored by Muntari, which should have made it 2-0, was wrongly overlooked by the referees. (The linesman on the side where Juventus defended was probably the most guilty of not making sure the goal counted, which it should have, as the ball headed by the Ghanaian player crossed the line by a good distance before being pushed out again by Buffon.)
This is yet another proof - and I'm sure everybody has lost count - that referees are just not good enough to make these decisions without the help of replays or goal-line technology.
In any case, after Antonio Nocerino's goal, a quarter of an hour into the game, Juventus started to play better.
And they improved significantly after half-time.
Maybe one of the big incentives was also that they did not want to have their first defeat this season come at the hands of their biggest rivals.
Alessandro Matri, one of the greatest Italian attacking prospects, had a perfectly good goal disallowed, too, due to offside, in the second half.
After this second error, my opinion is that the linesman on that side very likely did not intend to deprive Milan of a deserved advantage, in the first half, or else he probably would have helped Juventus in the second half. (But he didn't.) No, that guy either needs glasses, or he should be relegated to officiate some smaller matches, where his screw-ups do not matter that much.
But the 27-years old Juventus forward was not to be denied, as he scored with an impressive volley, to make it 1-1, in minute 83.
No team could then deliver the knockout blow.
And Juventus is still unbeaten in matches against Milan this season. (And there's one more to go, in the Coppa Italia semifinal, return leg.)
Juventus remains second, but they could take over first spot if they win their game in hand.
Highlights:
Milan - Juventus 1:1 HD Highlights by FootballKing1992
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