1 Hand from O’brien in his area on a header from Mounié (16′)?
Bruno Derrien: “I have seen hands like these already whistled, he considered it involuntary. The ball heads towards the goal. The images should have at least been viewed so that everyone understood. If the penalty had been whistled, it wouldn’t have hit me but the hands are very complicated to judge today.”
Saïd Ennjimi: “This penalty seems to me to have to be whistled, because the arm is detached from the body and many penalties have already been whistled for these same phases of play. If we have already whistled hand faults of this ilk, we must continue. What bothers me is this lack of search for uniformity which materializes every weekend.”
2 Lacazette offside on the free kick awarded to Lyon to open the score (18′)?
BD “I didn’t see it, I can’t say”.
SE “I am unable to tell you if there is offside. Var necessarily has images but they must have invited them not to confirm this offside position. But these images must be shared with the general public, it is not possible to continue like this because by definition, people wonder. It’s totally opaque.”
3 Red card for Caqueret for a sole on Del Castillo (45+2′)?
BD “There, he screws up. Caqueret has to take a box, it’s orange. There is a lack of lucidity about this action.”
SE “When unfortunately you are lost, and I have been lost often enough in my career, you get through it. Naturally, there should have been a foul and at the very least a yellow card given.”
4 Hand from Matic on a shot from Magnetti which offers Brest a free kick, transformed by Del Castillo (64′)?
BD “Matic diverts the ball with his elbow, sometimes it’s also a strategy. He is right to whistle, it was very well refereed because it was not easy to see.”
SE “The elbow is completely glued to the body and the player, in his extension, turns around a little. Matic has a completely natural stance. We have never seen hand fouls called like this.”
5 Yellow card and exclusion of Pierre Lees-Melou (86′)?
BD “Lees-Melou is on the ground and Tagliafico picks him up, he doesn’t have to touch him. It’s not handled very well by the referee.”
SE “At a certain level of experience, we don’t throw ourselves into a conflict situation, we wait and move away. So that Lees-Melou, who it seems has not done much, is not punished, nor to cause any form of injustice. He shouldn’t have ruled out.
6 Penalty for Lyon and simple yellow card for Bizot (90+11′)?
BD “Bizot’s fault is indisputable but a referee who has his lucidity sees it and whistles it directly (Mr. Vernice went to consult the Var on this action). But for me, there is no red card, the yellow is consistent. I saw that this act of play had been compared by Jean-Michel Aulas to the aggression of Harald Schumacher. For me, it’s not one of them. Bizot does not lose interest in the ball.
SE “Not only is the penalty for Lyon logical, but there is also a red card to give to the goalkeeper.”
“Mr Vernice should not have been there”
At 30, Mathieu Vernice managed his eleventh Ligue 1 match of the season, Sunday evening, but the first with such a stake. Abandoned by the Var, he will now have to recover from his disaster but for Bruno Derrien, “on such a poster, why was it not an international referee who was appointed? I think that for Brest – Monaco, they will give a size. And then to dispassionate all that, why not practice exchanges with foreign referees? » In his turn, Saïd Ennjimi questions the appointment of Mathieu Vernice for a meeting between two teams with European ambitions: “Refereeing while young is far from easy in a match of this level. I am not targeting the referees but the system must protect them and it is better to send very experienced people to these matches.” For Ennjimi, “Mr. Vernice has nothing to do with it, he should not have ended up there. The referees are not responsible for much, they try to apply what is asked of them and I have the impression that there is no longer a pilot on the plane. They are always between a rock and a hard place, with the clubs on one side and their direction on the other. Our referees are also robotic, they are afraid of the Var. The system is not working, there are also internal quarrels. So you cannot ask those who put the system into practice to be efficient…”