Olympique de Marseille came close to the disaster on the lawn of Santiago Bernabeu. Authors of a calamitous start to the match, the Marseillais could consider themselves happy not to have conceded a goal after the first quarter of an hour. Better still, it is even OM that was going to open the scoring on an express counterattack concluded by Timothy Weah.
And if Real Madrid quickly equalized, he had to wait for the last minutes of the meeting and a penalty to say the least to see the vice-champions of Spain take the advantage ten minutes from the end. The whistle of Mr Mr Irfan Peljto after a hand on the ground of Facundo Medina aroused very strong reactions at the end of the meeting.
“It's a shameful penalty, thus castigated Roberto de Zerbi at the end of the meeting. 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 Vélodrome, 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. »»
Two weights, two measurements?
And OM could have it all the worse in the first period, the referee of the meeting did not, however, stroke when a strike from Geoffrey Kondogbia was deflected from the elbow by Eder Militão, the Brazilian defender seeming to slightly spread his elbow to counter the ball, then on the hand of Dean Huijsen.
And if the Var has not deemed good you, many Marseille supporters have not failed to point this decision on social networks.
However, Medhi Benatia wanted to measure at the end of the meeting. “” It's a little hard. I will not say that it is an imaginary penalty because we see that there is a contact with the hand. But the player tackles, he plays the ball … he was content to say after the match. It is clear 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. I could be wrong, but losing like that is a little annoying. »»
