Thibaut Simon, Media365, published on Thursday January 23, 2025 at 8:34 p.m.
The FFF disciplinary committee met to make its opinion on the behavior of Medhi Benatia and Olivier Létang during the French Cup match between OM and Lille. The two men are suspended as a precaution.
The director of Marseille football Medhi Benatia and the president of LOSC Olivier Létang will have to appear before the Federal Discipline Commission of the FFF. Indeed, the two men were suspended following their bad behavior during the 16th finals of the Coupe de France between OM and Lille. A suspension as a precaution. If the Lille had won after the penalty shootout, Benatia and Létang were vehement towards the arbitral body. Before the start of the penalty shootout, Clément Turpin had excluded Medhi Benatia, present in the middle of the scuffle in the middle of the lawn. Regarding Olivier Létang, the images had revealed that the president of the DOGUES had taken the arm of the fourth referee Jérémy Stinat at the end of regulation time. Two behaviors on which the Commission decided to look.
Benatia already suspended three games this season
This sanction is therefore not a surprise. OM expected the file to be placed in instruction. For Létang, who had not been suspended following the match, the referee had produced an additional report pointing to the attitude of the Lille leader. The two men are now waiting to go before the Commission to find out the duration of their suspension. Regarding Medhi Benatia, this is not the first time that the Marseille leader has been pinned for bad behavior. After his rant against the referees of the match between OL and OM (2-3, on September 22), Benatia had three firm suspension games and three games suspended. On the move to Strasbourg for Lille (25/01) and Nice for OM (26/01), the meetings will not see the presence of the two men. They will have an appointment on Thursday January 30 to find out the conclusions of the file.
