Florian Maurice, sports director of Nice (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP)
Largely reduced, Nice did not do poorly against OL despite the score (4-1). Florian Maurice, sporting director of the Nice club, could not digest the refereeing errors.
Florian Maurice, what prevails with this defeat (4-1) against OL?
Maurice : When we lose 4-1, we cannot be satisfied with this content. I can't say about the match as a whole, because there were some interesting things, particularly on the offensive side, a little less defensively. I will be the one who will complain to the refereeing, but I believe that there are certain situations which were judged very poorly by the referee, by the VAR. It's a big disappointment tonight. We hoped for a better result following the heavy defeat in the Europa League. The start was rather interesting, we conceded a goal, but we came back quite quickly. We could have led the score if the referee had not canceled the goal due to a small mistake by Rosario. If we don't call a penalty on Guessand in the second half and we call this foul beforehand on a Lyon player, I find that scandalous.
Were you able to chat with Mr Dechepy?
I haven't spoken with him, but he can give me as many explanations as he wants. I watched the images again and it's not possible not to call a penalty for an action like that. We can get back to 2-2, I think (editor’s note: 3-2 in reality). We will have to ask him the question, but I noticed this (Sunday) evening that there was a complete hiccup in the refereeing, I can tell you that.
“This Sunday, it was too blatant”
What needs to be done to change this? We see that there are often errors for one club then for another…
-Lately, we cannot say that we have had an advantage at this level. There have been refereeing errors since the start of the season, but I'm just going to talk about this (Sunday) evening. I think the decisions were very, very bad.
Do you plan to place a reservation? We saw Monaco write to UEFA during the week…
I'm not in the habit of coming in front of the press to express myself and in particular to talk about refereeing, but this (Sunday) evening, it was too blatant.
