Yesterday evening, Lille pulled off a magnificent feat on the Vélodrome lawn by eliminating Olympique de Marseille in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France (1-1, 3-4 tab). A tense end to the match where Roberto De Zerbi did not fail to insult Olivier Létang. At a press conference, the Marseille coach returned to the reasons for his anger: “Explain to me why the president of Lille goes down on the pitch to speak with the fourth referee, for the second time here because he did it in L1? The President of the Republic could do it, but the president of a club? His place is in the stands and if no one says something to him, I’ll tell him” he said.
De Zerbi drops a punchline, Létang reframes it!
He then continued: “I didn’t see Pablo Longoria speaking with the fourth official. Many things are strange and I have difficulty understanding them. In thirty years of football, I had never seen a club president come down to speak with representatives of the refereeing body.” he cursed. The response from the Lille president was expected and it was not expected.
In the mixed zone, the latter did not fail to reframe the OM coach while asking him to stay focused on his job as coach: “I’m not interested. I didn’t speak to him, I didn’t speak to him. Let him do his job as a coach and everything will be fine. I haven’t spoken to him, so I can’t tell you anything. I simply mentioned the fact that the referee had played 25 seconds more than added time. It ended very well with Mr. Stinat (fourth referee) so I don’t understand why the coach of Olympique de Marseille came to talk to me since I wasn’t speaking to him at all“. Ambiance.
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To summarize
A big clash took place between Roberto De Zerbi and Olivier Létang during and after the meeting between OM and Lille. Last night, Lille pulled off a magnificent feat on the Vélodrome lawn by eliminating Olympique de Marseille in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France (1-1, 3-4 tab).
