Torino were keen to finish Juventus’s veteran goalkeeper going past Sebastiano Rossi’s Serie A record,and Rossi took tiny pleasure in losing his crownNot everyone was cheering Gigi Buffon as he closed in on a remarkable record. The Juventus captain had not conceded a goal in 926 minutes of league football heading into Sunday’s Turin derby. Just four more would be enough to make this the longest such sequence of any goalkeeper in Serie A history.
Few opponents, though, or could have been more eager to rain on his parade than Torino. Juventus’s rivalry with their city neighbours has not always been particularly fierce – it is indicative that Claudio Marchisio’s father,Stefano, used to buy season tickets for both teams when his son was a boy – but in recent years tensions have risen.
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Source: theguardian.com