It was quite obvious to everyone who saw
OM-Lille (1-1)Saturday, on behalf of the 15th day of Ligue 1. And this obviously did not escape Roberto de Zerbi. The OM coach saw Neal Maupay constantly subjected to more than tight individual marking from Bafodé Diakité, author of the equalizer in the 87th minute. In almost every duel, the central defender of the Mastiffs made mistakes. This special treatment of the Olympian striker was not judged correctly, in the eyes of the Italian technician.
Bafodé Diakité should have “receive a second warning for his systematic fouls on Neal Maupay. On the Lille goal, there is an obvious block on Leonardo Balerdi. And I think there is a penalty for a foul on Jonathan Rowe, judged Roberto de Zerbi at a press conference, cited by The Team. I think the referee didn’t play a good match, he never had it in hand. A Marseille-Lille match would have deserved better management. »
Everyone called for a penalty
His Lille counterpart also had no tender words for the referee, Willy Delajod. “ I think there may be a penalty on Haraldsson in the first half. And there is an offside whistle when we have a two-on-one situation,” confided Bruno Genesio.
Regarding the contact in the 80th minute between OM midfielder Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg and his Lille opponent Gabriel Gudmundsson, the Dogues coach considered that it was a question of“ a duel, that’s all. There are blocks like that in every match. You can watch, you can observe all the matches. There are every match. » This was not the opinion of the Marseille camp which had demanded a penalty.
