Atalanta boss Gasperini hit with 2-game touchline ban

Milan - Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini has been hit with a two-game touchline ban for a foul-mouthed tirade at match officials as he was sent off in a 2-1 defeat at Lazio.

Gasperini followed Simone Inzaghi in being sent off for dissent, in the 79th minute of the game, but while the Lazio coach walked away quietly six minutes before half-time Gasperini launched a series of insults at the fourth official and match referee.

Serie A boses on Tuesday banned Gasperini for Atalanta's next two league games, at home to Sampdoria and away to Torino, "for serious and injurious insults aimed at the fourth official and the referee".

Pescara coach Massimo Oddo was hit with a one-game touchline ban for "using disrespectful language while protesting to the match referee", meaning he will miss his side's home game with Sassuolo on Sunday.

Gasperini complained after his side's defeat his expulsion had been planned by the referee.

"For the entire game the fourth official was threatening to send me off," Gasperini raged in comments to Sky Sport.

"The referee had planned to send me off, because earlier he'd got rid of Inzaghi and so he had to apply the same rule."