After the draw between Olympique Lyonnais and Fenerbahçe, José Mourinho considered that OL had been advantaged by the arbitral body. In particular, he wants the Var assistants for their lack of discernment.
When you have to target the negative points of an evening, José Mourinho knows how to do it. After the draw between his team from Fenerbahçe and Olympique Lyonnais, the Special One dropped on many subjects. If his remarks against John Textor, in support of Pierre Sage who is under the threat of a delicate ultimatum, have caused a lot of ink to flow, those very critical with regard to the arbitration of the evening also worth the detour. After a match chopped by disputed arbitral decisions, the Fener coach could not hide his frustration as to the use of the Var. José Mourinho first admits that the man with the whistle was not very mild to OL during this evening, before saying that his team was much more injured by the lack of discernment of the referent referee The video.
“It's impossible to talk about the match without talking about that”
« I think we have to talk about the Var. Because the referee made an error by giving yellow card to Kumbedi on Szymanski. But the Var is supposed to be there to help the referee when he is wrong. She didn't do it. She did not call the central referee. If he had gone to see the control screen, he would have given a red card. It is Paolo Mazzoleni, he is a very famous guy in Italy. This Mazzoleni Paolo therefore did not call the referee. For me, the errors of the central referee are acceptable. The Var is there to correct and it did not do it. When the referee gave Niakhaté a red, Mr. Mazzoleni this time decided to do his job well. He called the central referee who went to see the screen and made the right decision (Niakhaté had only a yellow, editor's note). In the second half, Kumbedi caught a player by the neck like UFC combat. Szymanski started towards the goal. It was a second yellow card. These are huge mistakes that necessarily had a great influence on the match. It's impossible to talk about the match without talking about that », Loked José Mourinho, at a press conference, who does not come back from the manifest errors of the referees at the Var.
-The draw between the two teams especially does not help Fenerbahçe. With this one and only point gleaned at the end of the match, José Mourinho's team points to 23rd place and flirts with the non-qualifying area for the rest of the competition. Unlike OL which always targets the first 8 places.
