At the Bentegodi, Hellas threatened early on thanks to Ibrahim Sulemana and Milan Djuric, but Kean was unable to connect with an Adrien Rabiot shot across the goal. Rabiot's pass to Kean, which was assisted by a Pawel Dawidowicz deflection, resulted in a goal. Due to Danilo's handball on a deflected Miguel Veloso shot and Leonardo Bonucci's high boot on Simone Verdi, Verona was given two significant penalties.
Due to knocking down Kevin Lasagna while in a clear shot at goal, Alex Sandro was dismissed. Salvatore Bocchetti, the Verona coach, said to DAZN: "I don't want to comment about officials, but when you have a sequence of occurrences like we witnessed against Monza and tonight, we really are just flabbergasted. By publishing a still image of the Danilo handball without any additional commentary, the official Hellas Verona social media account further drove home the message.