There was a case for Inter to have been given a penalty during the second half of yesterday evening’s Serie A match against Fiorentina, for a shirt-pull by Viola defender Igor on striker Lautaro Martinez.

This is the view in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews, who argue that the pull was there even if it was relatively faint and not a blatant foul.

Martinez, who had come onto the pitch as a substitute when Inter were already a goal behind, clearly felt that he had been brought down by Fiorentina defender Igor during the second half of yesterday evening’s match.

There was a visible shirt-pull by the Brazilian, even if the Inter striker’s fall did look to have exaggerated the extent to which the pull had actually affected him.

Referee Fabio Maresca immediately gestured that he saw nothing in the incident worthy of pointing to the spot, despite the vehement appeals of the Inter striker.

The Nerazzurri may have briefly felt that they could get some change out of the VAR, but the video assistant review was not long at all.

From the view of the Gazzetta, however, there is a case that Inter were hard done by in the incident.

Even though the shirt-pull was hardly the most blatant one, it was perceptible and will certainly have had an effect on the Inter striker, so in some sense Fiorentina Igor may have gotten away with one.

Meanwhile, the Gazzetta notes, there was a drag-back by Fiorentina midfielder Gaetano Castrovilli on Inter striker Romelu Lukaku in the second half that was deemed to be worthy of a yellow card.

The newspaper observes that the 26-year-old had also committed a bookable offense early on in the match for which Maresca let him off, and so that perhaps he was lucky that the second half yellow was only his first rather than second.