Ziliani: “What a joke about Juve! And Maresca was afraid of Naples…”

Monday 29th December 2025 11:17 AM

Paolo Ziliani commented thus on the newspaper headlines about Juventus in the Scudetto zone. Titles that ignored a detail

Paolo Ziliani, on his X account, commented on the newspaper headlines about Juventus in the Scudetto zone. Titles that ignored the two more games for Spalletti’s team.

The lies of the newspapers about Juventus

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“Juventus -1 from the top”, “Spalletti in the Scudetto zone”. The pound of information from the Italian media who forget the two fewer games played by Inter, Milan and Napoli. In order to sell one more copy, the sports newspapers did not hesitate yesterday to celebrate a false -1 in the standings which became -4 the following day and destined to become -7 after the Inter-Lecce recovery. All this without mentioning the sensational penalty denied by Maresca to Pisa, at 0-0, which was passed off on DAZN as a normal game clash.

I don’t think you’ll read it in any newspaper and you won’t hear it said on any television broadcast, but there are two certainties that emerged after the 17th day of the championship (which in reality has yet to end: it will do so tonight with Roma-Genoa): the first is that the Belpaese media consider the Italians, those who follow the events of football, a bunch of gullible people with rings in their noses who can tell any nonsense just to sell an extra copy of the newspaper in the belief that they will drink it all.

The referee Maresca and the penalty denied

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And the second is that the Neapolitan referee Maresca, the one who together with his colleague Guida asked never to referee Napoli fearing for his own safety and that of his family, will be able to continue to walk peacefully, not only in the districts of Naples, but also through the streets of Turin – in case he decides to go there as a tourist -, especially after having refereed Pisa-Juventus 0-2 played on Saturday. To clarify: yesterday, after Madama’s success in Pisa, it didn’t seem true to the three sports newspapers that they could go on newsstands peddling the lie that Juventus was second, just one point behind Inter and therefore in full contention for the Scudetto.”