Shocking scenes as ace defies team orders, is confronted by team-mates, scores penalty but then gets hooked IMMEDIATELY

UDINESE prima Lorenzo Lucca alienated his team-mates past nighttime by insisting connected taking a punishment implicit their designated taker.

And contempt converting the first-half spot kick, Lucca was hooked by his manager conscionable moments later.

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Lorenzo Lucca was determined to instrumentality Udinese’s penalty[/caption]

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Lucca’s stubbornness prompted a frustrated reaction[/caption]

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The striker was booked during the incident[/caption]

The Italian broadside were taking connected Lecce successful Serie A.

When they were awarded a punishment soon aft the fractional hour, a bizarre country followed.

Captain and designated taker Florian Thauvin was acceptable to instrumentality the spot kick.

But Lucca, 24, refused to springiness the French World Cup victor the ball.

Several of his team-mates, including erstwhile Manchester United and Arsenal guardant Alexis Sanchez, angrily pleaded with Lucca to backmost down.

The striker did not, however, and was adjacent booked during the antithetic incident.

When his team-mates yet relented, Lucca made nary mistake successful converting the penalty.

But his colleagues, inactive fuming, did not observe with him.

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Lucca, 24, went connected to person the penalty[/caption]

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The Italy planetary was substituted conscionable minutes later[/caption]

In the 36th minute, manager Kosta Runjaic hooked Lucca disconnected and replaced him with Iker Bravo.

The guardant looked miffed arsenic helium exited the pitch.

And aft Udinese’s eventual 1-0 win, helium could beryllium seen not smiling arsenic the squad took a celebratory representation together.

After the match, Runjaic told DAZN: “We person wide hierarchies with punishment kicks.

“I didn’t similar the discussion, they were talking for a agelong time, helium made the determination independently and I preferred to instrumentality him disconnected the transportation aft helium took the punishment anyway, which helium changeable precise well.

“It is besides not the archetypal clip that 2 players connected a squad person argued implicit who gets to instrumentality a set-piece. We volition decidedly speech astir this during the week.

“I made this prime due to the fact that I don’t similar those who don’t respect the rules, truthful I had to instrumentality measures. However, this volition each beryllium solved successful grooming and we volition absorption connected our adjacent match.”

Lucca, who was capped by Italy for the archetypal clip past year, has taken six penalties crossed his elder career, scoring 3 and missing three.

Thauvin, meanwhile, has scored 13 spot kicks, missing six.

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Lucca, successful the mediate of the photograph astatine the back, did not grin for a celebratory post-match picture[/caption]