In the 43rd minute, the Lensois defender Jumah Bah contained a strike from Alejandro Gomes Rodriguez of the leg and then the arm. No penalty according to the Var and the meeting referee, Jérémy Stinat.
new day, new controversy in Ligue 1. This weekend, the action that aroused the most reactions during this 32nd day was the hand of Lensois Jumah Bah against Olympique Lyonnais in the 43rd minute. After a scramble in the surface of the Northerners, Alejandro Gomes Rodriguez had struck the ball without control towards the goal of Mathew Ryan before he was countered by the Sierra-Léonais defender.
In its traditional debrief of the previous day, the arbitration management (DA) analyzed the decision of video assistance, which had decided not to give a penalty to the players of Paulo Fonseca. For her, “The fact that the ball first touched the defender’s leg before coming into contact with the arm is not a sufficient element not to whistle penalty. Besides, the DA recalls that this criterion does not appear in the laws of the game. ”
“Then, at the time of contact with the ball, the defender’s arm is in a position which results from the overall movement of his body, to amortize the fall of the defender: there is therefore no artificial increase in the surface covered by the defender’s body. Therefore, the contact between the arm and the ball is not sanctionable. The decision made in the field not to grant a penalty was indeed expected ”she finally concluded.
