On December 18, the Ligue 1 meeting between AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain was marked by
Gianluigi Donnarumma’s impressive injury. Totally disfigured following a sole from Wilfried Singo on his face, the Italian goalkeeper had to be replaced by his competitor Matvey Safonov.
The referee of this match, François Letexier, did not even give a warning to the defender of the Principality club. This Tuesday, the arbitration management of the French Football Federation ruled against him. During her weekly debrief after the sixteenth day of the championship, she considered that the Ivorian international should have been excluded.
Letexier judged by the FFF
“His action endangers the physical integrity of the goalkeeper, given the sole directly impacting the latter’s face. This situation therefore constitutes a gross fault within the meaning of law 12. The intervention of video assistance was expected to modify the initial decision and exclude the offending player. can we read in the FFF press release.
Many Internet users had drawn the parallel between the red card that Mr. Letexier had given to Amine Harit during the Classic between Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain played at the end of last October.
The justification that the man with the whistle gave for this expulsion at the time went completely against his choice not to sanction Singo.
