The image is beautiful, one could almost believe in a somewhat clichéd love scene, all the most romantic that Hollywood cinema has to offer us. But don’t let the hands on the back of your neck fool you: Saturday night, it was aggression and not affection that was at stake between Mattéo Guendouzi and Paulo Dybala. The two midfielders spent the evening making trouble on the Rome side, during the derby between AS Roma and Lazio (1-0).
The referee had to come and separate the two angry people so that the situation did not escalate. Let us underline the clemency of the man with the whistle, who did not warn any of the players, not even the Argentinian, who continued to harass the Frenchman under the eyes of the referee when everything seemed to have calmed down.
Dybala indeed insistently showed his shin guard to Guendouzi, on which would be printed an image of the 2022 World Cup, won by Argentina to the detriment of France, in the final. Always so charming with us on the football fields, these Argentinians.