Grenoble had doubts following the rapid exclusion of Gaëtan Paquiez, but Grenoble validated their qualification against Villefranche this Saturday. Ahead thanks to a goal from the inevitable Meïssa Ba, the Isérois were then joined by the Caladois and a splendid volley from Diakité but ended up winning after a long penalty shootout (1- 1, 10-9 after TAB) and will therefore be present in the 8th round of the French Cup. The Grenoble coach, Oswald Tanchotexpressed his satisfaction but also a certain frustration with regard to the refereeing in a press conference at the end of the meeting.
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« When you qualify in conditions like that, you tend to only see the positive and that's what you have to do. In the Coupe de France, we are very rarely judged on the content but rather on qualification or not. The scenario of the match means that we can add the aspect of mental strength to be able to go to the end of this match and win. There are obviously things to correct in terms of the game, but we played a very special match with ten players with a scenario that was quite unfavorable to us and we were right at the end to snatch the ticket. It was our goal, so we are satisfied […] I think we were the most enterprising team, even with ten, and that we conceded almost nothing to this team. We were almost not under pressure, apart from a little at the start, but it was a match that was fairly mono-paced, and we still cannot ignore, once again, the refereeing decisions that were made to us. very unfavorable from the start to the end of the match. Another referee that I don't understand, there is no headset, there are three penalties on Mouyokolo if you look closely, you will see. He is tackled to the ground three times. There is no VAR in Ligue 2, there is no headset in the 7th roundthey can't communicate, they can't give each other instructions… I would like to have an explanation, I thought there were earpieces every time the National teams returned, but that wasn't the case the case. So we went back into this kind of thing. »
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