Booked at the start of second-half added time on Saturday at Roazhon Park for “contesting arbitral decisions”the Argentinian central defender, present this Monday afternoon at a press conference on the eve of the 16th final of the Coupe de France against Lille, gave his explanation on this visibly unjustified sanction, but fortunately without consequences for OM.
A referee too stressed?
“On that card, I was trying to rule out Derek Cornelius. I don't know if it was my way of speaking with the referee that pushed him to book me. But I wanted to tell him that there was a forgotten corner. That's just what I was trying to make him understand. He was perhaps, at this moment of the match, a little stressed. »
The match referee, Abdelatif Kherradji, indeed had a complicated evening, not helped by his VAR assessors. Tomorrow evening at the Vélodrome, Clément Turpin will be blowing the whistle. As a reminder, video refereeing will be unavailable.
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