Laszlo Bölöni strongly criticized the refereeing with the defeat of his players this Saturday evening against Rennes (2-3).
“These are (arbitral) decisions which do not pass, which are incomprehensible”complained Laszlo Bölöni, the coach of Metz, beaten at home by Rennes (3-2) on Saturday during the 32nd day of Ligue 1.
Overthrown at the Stade Saint-Symphorien while leading 2 to 1, the Messins strongly contested the penalty awarded to the Bretons by Ruddy Buquet for light contact from Ismaël Traoré on Arnaud Kalimuendo, which allowed Benjamin Bourigeaud to equalize ( 71st). They then rebelled when their best player Georges Mikautadze was excluded for having pushed Kalimuendo (90th + 5).
Lorraine coach Laszlo Bölöni did not lose his temper at the post-match press conference: “The referee made poor judgment (in awarding the penalty, Editor’s note). This changes the outcome. The icing on the cake is the expulsion of Mikautadze. I don’t know if I should scream, cry, laugh. If I tell you what’s on my mind, I will be summoned by the Disciplinary Commission. There are some who have more rights than others. These are decisions that do not pass, which are incomprehensible. If we have VAR, let’s use it… He didn’t take it into account.
“Today, we are nervous, sad, we don’t understand how this can happen in Ligue 1, we are going to take sleeping pills for two days and we are going to raise our heads”, he added. His Rennes counterpart Julien Stéphan was delighted with the fact that “the group does not give up”. “It’s the first time this season that we’ve managed to overturn a match,” he also noted. We will not fundamentally change things in the last two matches, we will modify them a little.
