PSG continues its flawless run. Already victorious in Le Havre and against Montpellier, the capital club has now secured a third consecutive success by winning in Lille (1-3) on Sunday, at the end of the 3e Ligue 1 matchday. But after leading 2-0 in the first half, the French champions got away with a big scare.
While Edon Zhegrova had reduced the score at the start of the last ten minutes, Tiago Santos thought he had equalized a few moments later. But that was without taking into account the intervention of the VAR, which stated that the Portuguese was offside at the time of Benjamin André’s pass. Problem, the ball had then been touched by Thomas Meunier and the Lille right-back was no longer in an illegal position. An error that angered Olivier Létang, the Lille president.
“This is the highlight of the match. The championship is already truncated. We are putting millions on the table to make the right decisions, launched to begin with the northern leader. Everyone looked after the fact, we all looked, I even went to see Mr. Bastien who had nothing to do with it. He confirmed to me that the fact that Thomas Meunier touched the ball put Tiago Santos back into play. It was the big frustration of the evening to say the least because we were 2-2 at that point in the match, there were 8 minutes left, we were pushing. In the end, we don’t know what would have happened. I’m very angry, I’m very, very, very angry. Like others, we put millions of euros on the table and tomorrow, we’ll say that Paris Saint-Germain won when we were 2-2 with eight minutes to go.
There is no ethics
“I don’t know if it’s a technology problem. There are people who are responsible for that. There is always the debate about whether we continue or not. You realize that tonight Paris Saint-Germain has 9 points when it should have had 7, continued the former Parisian.
Maybe even less if we scored a third goal because we were on a positive dynamic and ultimately, we are all frustrated tonight. When we see clearly, sharply and precisely that there is no offside, yes I am furious. Frankly, I don’t even want to talk about the match. We made mistakes, we played against a good team but the central element today is that with 8 minutes to go, it must be 2-2. We were pushing, we were on a good dynamic.”
“When I say that the championship is truncated, today the Ligue 1 championship, the final result, it is truncated while we have all the technological tools to make the right decisions but what are those who are in charge of this doing? It’s not possible, Olivier Létang got carried away again.
When we see on the screen live, Benjamin André’s head and Tiago Santos’ foot is offside by one foot, while that is not at all the subject, let’s be professional. Professional football league. Professional competition. In fact, there is no ethics. We have the images to make decisions and people do not make them”
