It took a controversial last-minute penalty to spare Juventus' blushes as Cristiano Ronaldo salvaged a draw in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final against 10-man AC Milan.
Ronaldo cannoned a bicycle kick into the hand of Milan's Davide Calabria, who was facing the other way when the shot was blocked with his hand.
The referee immediately waved off Juventus protests and it was not until the intervention of VAR that the game became dominated by a single decision.
Ronaldo converted the penalty with confidence. That is 35 in 35 for club and country now.
But there were plenty in red and black that felt furious the decision, along with the second half sending off for Theo Hernandez, was made given the referee was initially adamant it was not a deliberate handball.
Calabria was facing the crosser on the right and as the ball went over his head, he was unaware Ronaldo was to strike from a yard or two behind him.
He did not see the strike, could not have moved out of the way and found himself booked for dissent when pleading his innocence.
His manager was, unsurprisingly, seething at the final whistle.
'I got angry first and foremost because there was a foul on Ibrahimovic earlier in the move,' Stefano Pioli said.
'Plus I remember the referees showed footage of that Cagliari-Brescia penalty at the start of the season and said it was an error to award it because the player couldn't see the ball.