Overview
- Napoli won 3-1 at the Maradona, handing Inter their first defeat after a seven-match winning run under Chivu.
- Tempers flared near the Inter bench when protests over a Dumfries incident escalated into a face-off between Antonio Conte and Lautaro Martínez.
- Referee Mariani booked Conte during the confrontation, while Lautaro was not sanctioned on the spot.
- Inter CEO Giuseppe Marotta criticized the penalty on Di Lorenzo as a decisive 'rigorino' and said VAR should have intervened rather than the assistant.
- Conte rejected Marotta’s stance, saying directors should not create alibis or usurp post-match accountability, a dispute that revived memories of a 2021 Conte–Lautaro flare-up.