Tuttosport made its point loud and clear. "You should be ashamed," read the oversized banner stretched across the front of the Turin-based newspaper's website this morning and the paper and ink version was no more forgiving in the wake of last night's 4-1 defeat at Fulham. "A total flop," read the front-page headline. Just below that was a leader piece written by the editor, Paolo de Paola, titled "Those who have failed must pay".

"This is the last station. The end of the line," writes De Paola. "Juventus's year has been a total flop in which the ownership, club and team are all implicated. All of them. Reacting to the situation and working to find the solution is now obligatory. The ship is full of leaks: every sector needs to be looked at because in every one there is disfunction and holes."

De Paola's list of grievances is long – from the club's failure to appoint a permanent president ("because we all know very well that the role is only temporarily being filled by Jean-Claude Blanc) to the appointment of such an inexperienced manager as Ciro Ferrara at the beginning of the season. Either way his focus was squarely on Juventus's failings rather than Fulham's achievements. As, indeed, were most of the rest of the Italian press.

"Europa League nightmare, Juve choose suicide," was the headline in Il Giornale and the universal sentiment was that the Italian side's wounds were entirely self-inflicted. There was universal agreement that the penalty award had been harsh but even then many pointed out that Fabio Cannavaro might have given away another before he saw red.

"Juve did everything they could to throw away qualification to the quarter-finals and, in the end, they managed it," wrote Riccardo Signori in Il Giornale. In La Repubblica Fabrizio Bocca took up a common theme by insisting that Fulham were "certainly not a club of the very top level", while La Gazzetta dello Sport's writers described Roy Hodgson's side on numerous occasions as "modest".

Just as Inter's win over Chelsea had been held up as a triumph for all of Italy to celebrate, so this defeat was seen as a savage blow to the whole country's pride. "Slapped down by Fulham, a result that hurts very, very much," wrote Bocca in La Repubblica. "Not only for Juventus, but for all of Italian football: which not only loses precious Uefa coefficient points, but is quite simply humiliated. This was a worse showing even than the 4-0 defeat of Milan at Old Trafford. There, at least, the opponent was a great Manchester United."

Gazzetta's Alessandro de Calò, meanwhile, was keen to consider the implications for the national side this summer in South Africa. "The unknown Bobby Zamora provoked [Fabio Cannavaro] with his words before the game, causing the Italy captain's blood to boil. We were expecting a reaction filled with pride, a great match worthy of a Ballon d'Or winner and at the levels of the last World Cup. Sadly, Cannavaro opened the way for the English with first a slip to gift Fulham's first to Zamora, then his red card.

"The question becomes a national one because Cannavaro's flop looks like a metaphor for what could happen in South Africa to the glorious "old-fashioned" group which remains tied to [the Italy coach] Marcello Lippi."

Only in the player ratings was there any real discussion of Fulham's players, with Gazzetta's Francesco Bramardo naming Zoltan Gera as man of the match, but saving his kindest words for Zamora. "He tried everything he could think of, he turned defenders' heads and he found the equaliser," says Bramardo. "He also had a hand in Gera's first. Not by chance is he the team's top scorer."