Reduced to ten after 20 minutes, ASSE did not weigh against OM. If he does not contest Marseille's qualification, the Greens coach is annoyed by the behavior of Leonardo Balerdi.
Olympique de Marseille did not have to exert its talent to eliminate AS Saint-Etienne this Sunday at Geoffroy-Guichard. But Roberto De Zerbi's team waited to play 11 against 10 to break the deadlock, and then sweep away a very weak Saint-Etienne team. Indeed, Ibrahim Sissoko saw red after a stupid elbow on Leonardo Balerdi, following an argument with the OM captain. And obviously, that totally changed the situation, especially since the Greens didn't need that. On the ASSE side, while regretting the attitude of the Malian international striker, the Stéphanois interim coach regretted that the latter was trapped by Leonardo Balerdi, whom Laurent Huard thinks has a habit of rotting the matches. If he does not clear Sissoko, the Greens coach is annoyed by the OM captain.
« Before the match, I said that the step was high. With the game facts, it was even higher. This expulsion of Sissoko (21st), we are not going to dwell on it because there is no VAR, we know that. But what bothers me is that we fall into this game when we were warned and then we begin to know this player. As luck would have it, it falls on Balerdi. Sissoko apologized in the locker room. He understood the magnitude of his action, of his error. He said he didn't have to do that. He fell into the trap, it's done, we're not going to dwell on it », Confided Laurent Huard, who is not the first to judge that Leonardo Balerdi is too often in the role of the villain when he plays against clubs weaker than Olympique de Marseille.
