Despite an indigestible performance on Wednesday evening in the Champions League, Olympique de Marseille could have won. Except that the Marseille club finally lost by conceding a goal in the 90th minute,
following an arbitration scandal.
After the meeting, Medhi Benatia was obviously very upset.
“Does it feel like you’ve been robbed?” For my part, yes. It’s difficult to accept. This is a situation where we clearly see that the player is taking advantage of an unnatural position, while Aubameyang is arming himself to strike more. We can clearly see that the arm completely changes the trajectory of the ball. For me, there was everything they told us at the start of the year in the meeting to call this penalty.” declared the OM football director in the mixed zone.
“Behind, in addition, it turns out that we took this goal which kills us, continues the former central defender. Obviously, it was a big responsibility. I would have at least wished he would have gone and seen the pictures. There are two minutes of play left. The least we can do, I think, is to check it out and form a more certain opinion perhaps. There, there isn’t even that. And, when you talk to them, they barely look at you. That’s something that bothers me even more than the penalty. They are arrogant. It’s disturbing.”
Benatia castigates the OM-Atalanta referees
Medhi Benatia does not hesitate to openly criticize the refereeing body. “I went on the pitch at the end, I tried to tell them a little bit what I thought, he admitted. They have a lot of certainty, a lot of arrogance. I have trouble talking to people like this. Afterwards, I didn’t go see them in the locker room. There are people at the club who have done it. The referees must surely have told them stories, as usual, where they show you a position, words sometimes even difficult to understand to justify what, in any case, is not justifiable. That doesn’t interest me. »
After four days of the Champions League league phase, OM occupies
25th place in the ranking. The Marseille club is therefore virtually eliminated.
