💥 Lautaro and Conte clash again: what happened this time | OneFootball

Incredible tension in Napoli-Inter between Antonio Conte and his former striker Lautaro Martinez during the match won 3-1 by the Neapolitan team at the Maradona stadium.

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Midway through the second half, a scuffle nearly breaks out when the Neapolitan coach openly urges Denzel Dumfries to get back up after a clash with a Napoli player. The Dutchman, anything but meek, immediately confronts the coach face-to-face once he’s on his feet.

This is where the tension flares up, with the Argentine striker also getting involved from a distance, addressing Conte in a far from Oxfordian manner. With the gestures of a seasoned Italian, he first mimics the act of wetting himself and then blatantly points to his genitals.

The fiery response from the coach doesn’t take long: he tells him "Tira sto c***o!" (literally, "Pull this d***!"). Referee Mariani books Conte, who nevertheless points out Lautaro’s lack of respect.

After the match, on one side Inter president Beppe Marotta tried to keep the situation under control, saying that a clarification had already taken place, while on the other, Antonio Conte was certainly less diplomatic. These were his words:

"Lautaro? When you play these kinds of matches, things like this can happen. What I want to remember are the two years at Inter, when I brought the Scudetto back after 10 years, stopping Juventus’s 9 consecutive titles, and you all know what Juve means to me. I have great memories from that experience, Lautaro is an excellent player, but from a personal point of view, I didn’t really get to know him well. I wish him all the best and that’s that."

The feeling is that the friction between the two, dating back to a substitution that Lautaro protested heavily on May 12, 2021, during Inter-Roma, has never really gone away. In fact, over the years it has grown, leading to this unusual clash.

Conte’s reaction back then was furious as well: "You should be kicking yourself in the face, Lautaro, do you understand? You should be kicking yourself, do you get it? Phenomenon, f***ing phenomenon." Lautaro replied: "Let’s go inside, we’ll see inside."

At the time, they resolved it in a light-hearted way with a “mock boxing match” to ease the tension, but this time tempers seem a bit more frayed. History has repeated itself, and who knows what the next encounters between the two as rivals will bring.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.