Football (Coupe de France): why the referee should never have excluded ACFC defender Paul Bentayou [vidéo]

The central defender's first warning in the 19th^e minute does not suffer from any dispute. In the images (from 32'00), we see that Paul Bentayou does not control his gesture. At the entrance to the penalty area, he fell on his buttocks, mowing down Clermontois Maidine Douane without taking the ball.

The second yellow card at 22^e minute is, however, more than severe (from 34'40). While Clermont goes on the counter, Paul Bentayou is in a duel with Medhi Baaloudj. He is ahead of the Clermont striker who jostles him which leads to his confused but not necessarily irregular intervention. The referee should have called a foul for Angoulême.

This double warning in three minutes is all the more annoying for the locals as Mr. Legat, very late, is more than 30 meters from the action. And that his lightness had great consequences. He did not have the same severity when Clermont defender Vincent Da Silva could also have received a second warning for a very real shirt pulling.

In the process, ACFC coach David Giguel was excluded for leaving his technical zone and demanding explanations too vehemently in the eyes of the official who did not make friends in Charente.