Olympique de Marseille came close to the disaster on Tuesday on the lawn of Santiago Bernabeu. As a result of a completely failed start to the match, the Marseille defense showing itself particularly feverish and only in the blundling of Madrid's clumsiness not to sin from the start.
In the end, it was even the sky and white that opened the scoring, Real Madrid nevertheless equaling in stride on penalty. The rest of the meeting was going to be more balanced and the Phocaean supporters undoubtedly started to dream when Dani Carvajal was excluded at the start of the last quarter of an hour.
But that was without counting on a disputed action in the Marseille surface. After properly tackling Vinicius, Facundo Medina indeed touched the ball in his hand while he was on the ground. Sufficient to see the shelter of the meeting to grant a second penalty and Kylian Mbappé to offer a double and allow the Merengue to prevail.
Roberto de Zerbi does not digest the attitude of Real Madrid
It is an understatement to say that this whistle of Irfan Peljto went badly in the Marseille ranks. “” “It's a shameful penalty, thus rapped Roberto de Zerbi at a press conference. He is not there. I would also have said that if he had been whistled for us. For me, it's not a penalty, never. Neither at Bernabeu, nor at the VĂ©lodrome, Nor at Real Sociedad, nowhere. And I have no ulterior motives, I don't want to make controversy. I just say that there was no penalty. Point. »»
But the Marseille coach was even more explicit at the CBS Sports microphone. “There is never a penalty. You know better than me than before the matches, Real Madrid makes a lot of noise around the referees … “, he said, adding: “Nothing more … I don't want to make controversies, but there is never a penalty. »»
Medhi Benatia obviously shared the opinion of his coach but was less incisive. “We can see that he only plays the ball and being on the ground, he has the ball which touches his hand a little. It seems very severe to me ”, he explained.
