Romelu Lukaku will have to wait until next month to discover if he will be punished for his Milan derby bust-up with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, according to an Italian media report.
The Italian Football Federation are investigating the unpleasant scenes during last month’s Coppa Italia quarter-final, which saw the former Manchester United teammates square up to one another and exchange insults.
Tuttosport’s print edition explained today that the FIGC’s prosecutors were unlikely to deliver a verdict before March, despite hearing Lukaku yesterday to get the Belgian’s version of events.
Inter won the derby 2-1 after Ibrahimovic had given AC Milan a first-half lead at San Siro.
Both clubs could receive a hint on the sort of punishment Lukaku and Ibrahimovic will receive from another investigation the FIGC are conducting, the Turin-based paper explained.
The case involves Pisa forward Michele Marconi, who is being investigated for alleged racial abuse following an incident with Inter’s former midfielder Joel Obi during a Serie B fixture against Chievo Verona in December.
Should the FIGC’s tribunal deem Marconi’s comments, which likened Obi’s protests mid-match to ‘a slave revolt’, to have racial connotations, it could influence prosecutor Giuseppe Chine’s thinking when he comes to analyse Ibrahimovic’s comments towards Lukaku about ‘doing his voodoo’.
