Two falls for Olympique de Marseille. Already beaten on Real Madrid's pitch in the opening match, the Ciel et Blanc bit the dust again during their trip to Lisbon where they faced Sporting.
As with the Merengue, the match started perfectly, Igor Paixao opening the scoring with a marvelous strike into the top corner, but the rest was more complicated. Consequence of the exclusion of Emerson just before the break. While he had initially awarded a penalty to the Brazilian defender following contact in the area, the referee of the match actually revised his judgment after viewing the video and imposed a yellow card for simulation on the former Chelsea player, already warned a few minutes earlier.
And the Marseillais' misfortunes with refereeing were not going to stop there. In the second half, the Ciel et Blanc first saw the referee refuse Geny Catamo's equalizing goal for offside before validating it, the Mozambican being covered by the tip of Benjamin Pavard's foot. A sequence inevitably badly experienced by the Marseille camp.
The anger of Pierre-Emerick Aubamameyang
“We paid for refereeing errors in my opinion, Roberto De Zerbi soberly said at the microphone of Canal+ at the end of the meeting. I didn't like the way the match was refereed. I think the referee was not suitable for a match of this level. »
Pierre-Emerick Aubamameyang was on the same line as his coach but made much more scathing remarks. “We don't have the right to speak (to the referee), he speaks with the captain. It's scandalous. When we have a match with such high stakes in the Champions League, having such referees is scandalous, he thundered. It penalizes us, we had a good match, it totally changes the appearance of the match. We're very upset, but let's move on to the championship now. »
