Di Canio blasts Theo and Leao for conduct in Lazio game: “This is a disgrace” | OneFootball

Paolo Di Canio has branded Theo Hernandez and Rafael Leao ‘a disgrace’ for the way they conducted themselves during the second half of the game against Lazio.

The ‘cooling break saga’ has been dominating the media headlines and the social media feeds of Milan fans since Saturday night’s game in the capital, with a lot of differing opinions on what went on.

Shortly after the goal to make it 2-2, the image showed Theo and Leao on their own on one side of the field while everyone else gathered near their coaches for a team-talk, and the fall-out rages on even if those involved tried to pour cold water on things.

Di Canio spoke on the Sky Calcio Club broadcast alongside Fabio Capello and he was asked for his thoughts on the incident, which Football Italia have translated below.

“I hear people say that they are just kids and that’s how it goes, (but they are) worth 8 million, to Milan,” he began.

“If something like this happens after work, even with my friends messing around and playing, if someone sits there on the side with his belly hanging out, I tell them: ‘hey, what are you doing? Come and help us’. And you have to pay €10 to play on the pitch. It’s a disgrace.

“The captain starts piping up, as if to say ‘oh look at this’. It delegitimises the situation. The coach, the teammates who were put down by that attitude, in my day, would have been pinned up against the wall and punched. It’s a disgrace.”