Unfair Advantage? Controversial Calls in Ligue 1 Match between Brest and Lyon

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The Ligue 1 match between Brest and Lyon on April 14 raises the eternal question of fairness between small and large players in football, the latter being generally favored by contentious decisions.

We imagine that he spoke under the influence of emotion. And the damage was done. But still. Hearing Jean-Michel Aulas, vice-president of the French Football Federation (FFF), explain on Amazon Prime that “Olympique Lyonnais is made to be at the top” of the ranking after the referee’s disaster Mathieu Vernice allowed the Gones to win (4-3) at the end of the match in front of Stade Brestois which made us very funny. Football is what it is: one or two whistles are enough to turn a match around. And they are not easy to decide. We are indeed talking each time about an interpretation, the obligation for Mathieu Vernice and his peers to say white or black (I whistle or not) when everything is gray, and all the shades of gray are there too.

Three times in three matches

Still. Sunday evening in Décines, a whole wheelbarrow of whistles came to the aid of Olympique Lyonnais; a non-whistled hand from Lyon defender Jack O’Brien, a possibly forgotten red for his teammate Maxence Caqueret, a severe expulsion (to say the least) of Brest’s best player Pierre Lees-Melou, and so on. Each action can be discussed, but their recurrence and the fact that they are all one-sided says something. And it’s been three games since Olympique Lyonnais, returned from the depths of Ligue 1 (it was relegated in December) because it put in the fifty million necessary during the winter transfer window to pay for a new

2024-04-15 18:11:40
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