OL: Why did Donnarumma explode (and almost be sent off) after Mikautadze’s goal?

OL supporters did not understand how Benoît Bastien could have addressed the same sanction to Georges Mikautadze as to Gianluigi Donnarumma (a yellow card), nor why the Lyon striker had wanted to apologize to the OL goalkeeper. PSG at half-time. We were playing the 41st minute of a Ligue 1 clash that had so far been dominated by the reigning French champion (2-0 from the 14th minute, 3-1 in the end) when a real mess broke out on the pitch.

It all started with a sublime dive from Georges Mikautadze, on a hidden caviar just as inspired by Rayan Cherki, mystifying Gianluigi Donnarumma to reduce the gap (2-1, 40th). And there, we only see on the screen the Georgian striker rushing to recover the ball in the Parisian nets, before passing near the Italian goalkeeper, while heading towards the central circle.

“I laughed so he took it a little badly”

Except that the transalpine international immediately grabbed him and made him fall to the ground, before threatening him with his finger almost in his face, and giving a little slap. Enough to make everyone unpin, and therefore push Benoît Bastien to warn both players. But why did Georges Mikautadze receive a yellow card, when the first images seemed to make him the victim of the situation, unlike Donnarumma flirting with expulsion on the spot?

The explanation came from the main party after the meeting: “It’s nothing, it’s nothing. I laughed [sur son but] so he took it a little badly. But I went to see him, I told him it was my pleasure to give him a lob.” It was therefore an uproar (through laughter) from the usual replacement for Alexandre Lacazette which put Donnarumma beside himself, until the situation calmed down at half-time. The improvement was short-lived for the Lyonnais (5th in Ligue 1), beaten 3-1 and now 12 points behind the Parisian ogre.