LIGUE 1 – After AS Monaco – OM – The Monegasques are angry: “The referee was for Marseille”

Monaco finished with a zero point. In a few minutes, the ASM was overthrown. As rarely. While the Principality club had the advantage in the scoreboard in the 83rd minute, Philippe Clément’s players cracked. Two goals came to change everything. And the decisive free kick obtained by Dimitri Payet annoyed the Monegasques, in particular their coach Phillipe Clément and Axel Disasi who let go of the Amazon microphone on leaving the field. “In the last 15 minutes when OM equalized, the referee was for Marseille“, got carried away the Monegasque defender.

The reason for his anger? This crazy scenario but especially the decision of the referee to whistle on the slight contact of Youssouf Fofana on Dimitri Payet. “On the last action, there is no fault“, Axel Disasi was annoyed. “We do a contact sport. Payet lets himself down. But as soon as it was 2-2, the referee let himself be influenced by the Marseille atmosphere. It’s costing us the gameThe anger is real. Disappointed by the improbable loss of points this Sunday evening, Axel Disasi could not manage to control his sourness.

His coach followed the same path. More measured however, Phillipe Clément also lost his temper against the man with the whistle. “Mr. Bastien is one of the best referees in France, launched the Belgian coach on the set of Amazon. But tonight his decisions are decisive“. For Phillipe Clément, there was Payet’s fall, which was a bit easy in his eyes, but also Leonardo Balerdi’s intervention on Breel Embolo a few seconds before, which earned a card… for the Swiss.

These decisions annoy him to the highest point because his players deserved better according to him, even if they suffered in the first period. “The hardest part is that my players did not deserve to end this match like this“, he explained. “I’m not happy with the first half. We missed things. But the second period was much better. We dominated. We had chances. We had everything in our hands and you lose on two decisionss”.

On the Rock, some, however, keep a cool head. Benoît Badiashile wanted to calm things down: “We can be disappointed. But putting everything back on arbitration is a little too easy“, explained the central defender, who was not retained by Didier Deschamps for the World Cup. From the point of view of the 21-year-old French international, the Monegasques are above all the first culprits of this defeat. “We have a free kick to play. We have to play it better. We need to be more aggressive. We can only blame ourselves in the end. We had the game in hand. When you lead 2-1 in the 83rd minute, it’s unacceptable to concede two goals afterwards. Do not look at refereeing errors.”