Ligue 1 – Sylvain Armand gives his version of the facts after the clash with Frédéric Antonetti during LOSC – Metz

A more animated meeting at the edge of the field. This is what happened this Friday evening, between Lille and Metz (0-0). In additional time, a very violent altercation between Frédéric Antonetti, the Messin coach, and Sylvain Armand, now technical director of LOSC, then took place. Which then led the expulsion of the Lorraine technician, who had even come to blows with Armand. Before the exchanges that followed were mainly marked by a particularly flowery language.

This Saturday afternoon, the day after this clash, Armand was questioned at the microphone of Prime Video to give his version of the facts. “I went down, in fact, confided the technical director of LOSC. Then, there were exchanges between me and Mr. Antonetti. However, he is someone I really appreciate in his way of doing things. He there are words that have been exchanged between us. Not even insults from him.”

At the base, I did not come to speak to him

“But afterwards, I tell you, there are images where we see him coming towards me. We see him touching me. Afterwards, we each have an ego too. Basically, once again, I didn’t come to talk to him , I did not come to address the Messin bench. Far from it. And today, I have nothing to reproach myself for. I did not insult him, I did not touch him. And I tell you , there are still images that speak for themselves”concludes the former player.

Still at the microphone of Prime Video, Frédéric Antonetti also delivered his analysis of this altercation, with a calm head: “You know, we are not well, the day after the matches, when we talk about you. I like it when we talk about the match. I like it when we talk about the players. I don’t like it when we talk about these events.”

The Messin technician also assured that he regretted the form more than the substance: “Of course, maybe I went a little too far. If the president of Lille and his collaborator, I repeat once again, do not go down during the match, in my technical area, the technical area of ​​FC Metz… Basically, I’m right. So maybe on the form, I’m surely wrong to react like that, because it’s not are not beautiful images to show, that’s for sure. But what means do I have to defend myself?

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