Former Inter defender Fulvio Collovati feels that it was fair for striker Romelu Lukaku to react to his teammate Nicolo Barella angrily in the team’s Serie A draw with Sampdoria on Monday evening.

Speaking to Italian broadcaster Rai Radio, via FCInterNews, Collovati stressed that in his view, it is understandable that a player in Lukaku’s position would not have taken kindly to the negativity that Barella had been showing.

Barella has always been a player who wears his heart on his sleeve and makes his feelings known on the pitch, usually in the form of his highly expressive body language.

This is not always appreciated by his teammates, and Lukaku certainly reacted towards the first half of the Nerazzurri’s draw with Sampdoria on Monday.

The Belgian seemed to imitate the 26-year-old’s gestures and shouted at him to stop, and for his part, Collovati fully understands the motivation for him to be so upset.

“Lukaku is a player who’s been struggling, he’s no longer the player he was two years ago,” the former defender noted.

“It’s hardly helping him to be negative like that when he needs support, I understand why he reacted the way he did.”

Collovati said of Barella that “He has this flaw where he is always waving his arms.”