It was with a very bitter taste in the mouth that PSG players had to wake up. Opposed to Liverpool this Tuesday evening in the round of 16 go to the Champions League, the Ile-de-France bowed (0-1), despite an overwhelming domination during the entire game. The heist directed by the Reds is all the more frustrating for the red and blue, as the arbitration is debated. In the 25th minute, Bradley Barcola was launched in depth and was taken over by Ibrahima Konaté. While many saw it as a fault on the part of the central defender, who would have been liable to a red card and a potential penalty, the Var did not judge the intervention of the French as a fault.
Inevitably, this decision caused strong reactions in the Paris camp, but not only. In England, too, some believe that Davide Massa should have whistled in favor of the French champions and expel Konaté. This is particularly the case of Rio Ferdinand, who commented on the meeting on TNT SPORTS. At the time of verification of the action carried out by the Var, the former Manchester United player expected to see a fault being whistled: ” It's a fault. And it's behind his back, it's a fault. It's a red card. If it is not a red card, I am amazed. “At halftime, and while Liverpool was still at 11, the former central defenseman was very surprised by the arbitral decision:” I'm not coming back to it that Liverpool here. How did the Var not see that? He pushes him between the shoulder blades, in the back. Definitely, arbitration is found at the center of all discussions in recent weeks.
