On the move on Borussia's field on Tuesday evening, Lille brought back an encouraging draw from her round of 16 go to the Champions League (1-1). Bruno Genesio's men were first carried out before reacting in the second half. But if Haraldsson finally equalized in the 68th, Lille could have benefited from a penalty a few minutes earlier, if the Var had correctly played its role. A situation that Johan Micoud wanted to talk about.
Consultant for the channel The teamthe 2000 European champion with the French team did not hide its annoyance and its amazement by the fact that the central referee was not invited by the Var to go and check the images. In question, a hanging between Schlotterbeck and David, the first destabilizing the second with his knee. “This action, I tell myself live that it can go through compared to the referee. But I do not understand how the Var does not mean that there is a fault in fact. »»
“We have lost emotions,” deplores Johan Micoud
A choice or a lack of choice that has blurred the former Girondins de Bordeaux. “There is the knee that completely hits David's calf and makes it fall. So I don't know how you can say to yourself: 'No, in the end there is no fault'. It is a mystery. (…) It's terrible. Because all the people who (said) that there would be no more injustice, that there would be no more error. (…) We lost emotion. »»
LOSC has therefore managed to return to the BVB despite this arbitral hiccup and can now hope to succeed in continuing its journey to reach the quarter -finals of the Champions League. A dream still very distant since it will be necessary to win, whatever the way, when receiving the German club in Pierre-Mauroy. A duel scheduled for March 12.
