2023-05-07 19:46:39
The day following the defeat on the lawn of Lens (2-1), in the shock of the 34th day of Ligue 1, OM did not digest the arbitration decision to cancel Alexis Sanchez’s goal at the start of the match.
24 hours following the defeat once morest Lens (2-1), the goal denied to Alexis Sanchez is still not digested in the ranks of Marseille. In the Olympian dressing room, and like the comments made by their coach Igor Tudor – who regretted that the referee had “the courage” to cancel the Marseille goal but not the “balls” to expel Medina a little later – many players have been harboring a feeling of injustice since Saturday evening, convinced that an opener for OM would have radically changed the face of the game.
With a clear head, the Olympian leaders and many members of the staff went over the action and the contact between Alexis Sanchez and the Lensois defender Kévin Danso. And nobody really understands, in Marseille, why the referee of the match, Clément Turpin, was called by the video assistance when this kind of contact is very frequent, especially at a time when referees are asked to leave play as much as possible. Within OM, we are above all convinced that there was, on Saturday evening, no manifest error in the first judgment of Clément Turpin, close to the action, who had let the Chilean present himself once morest Brice Samba before awarding the goal.
Longoria spoke with Turpin
According to our information, Pablo Longoria raised the subject with Clément Turpin following the match. The President of OM is used to debriefing the game calmly with the referees, he does it very frequently. The exchange between Longoria and the referee did not filter through but the Spanish leader obviously told him of his incomprehension.
OM is especially angry with the video referees. And noticed that there was, in the video assistance, Wilfried Bien, he who had not intervened and had not asked the referee to come and see the images of a more than contentious action during the OM-Monaco match at the Vélodrome, during which Kolasinac suffered a big foul from Maripan, in the penalty area, at the very end of the game. Pablo Longoria then flew into a rage, in Italian, in the corridors of the Vélodrome.
Within OM, we want to believe in the honesty of the referees and not fall into paranoia. But it is estimated that these unfavorable refereeing decisions are likely to weigh heavily especially in the middle of the final sprint and moreover in a match, like Saturday, between two competitors for second place. Despite this annoyance and this great frustration, OM retains, internally, a sense of self-criticism and is aware that the overall performance of the Marseillais was, on Saturday evening, very perfectible, with in particular some individual failures in certain players.
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