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Douglas Costa has paid his fine for Sassuolo spitting incident – Allegri

Massimiliano Allegri confirmed Juventus winger Douglas Costa has paid a fine for spitting at Sassuolo's Federico Di Francesco and urged the media to move on from the incident.

Towards the end of Juve's 2-1 win in their last Serie A fixture, Costa and Di Francesco clashed, the Brazilian headbutting and elbowing his opponent, before then also spitting in his face.

Costa was served with a four-match ban by the Serie A authorities and has been widely condemned, with Allegri among those to criticise him.

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Allegri said in the aftermath that Costa was to be fined by Juve, on top of the punishment handed down by Serie A.