Designated best referee in the world by IFFHS (the International Federation of History and Statistics of Football) on December 25, François Letexier is subscribed to the big posters of Ligue 1, as the ASS-OL can be. Recently, the interested party was chosen by FIFA, such as Clément Turpin, to integrate the contingent of referees called to officer this summer in the United States at the Club World Cup.
This Sunday evening in Geoffroy-Guichard, it is therefore the flagship of French arbitration that directs the debates. With the third time for the third time a huge controversy triggered under his responsibility. At the heart of the first act between the Stéphanois and the Lyonnais indeed, the interested party saw red, expelling Lucas Stassin – then just scorer – for a sole on Corentin Tolisso. Before changing …
If the fault of the Greens attacker was nothing voluntary, the clumsiness was very real and fatal to a taulier of the Gones forced to go out on a stretcher, touched severely at a priori at the level of the Achille heel. With possible catastrophic consequences on the end of the Rhone collective season.
Stasin the miracle of this ASS-OL
However, the video assistance embodied in particular by Willy Delajod concluded that the famous manifest error and decided to call M. Lettexier to view the images of the duel between Stassin and Tolisso. And the referee to return to the field by canceling his red card to brandish a simple yellow card at the place of the Belgian goalscorer of ASSE.
This season, Mr. Letexier has already distinguished himself during important posters. First by expelling Marseillais Amine Harit for a sole on the Parisian Marquinhos during the classic OM-PSG at the Vélodrome on October 27. Then by showing itself surprisingly magnanimous with regard to the Monegasque Wilfried Singo for an appalling sole on the face of the Parisian Gianluigi Donnarumma on December 18 in Louis-II.
