Axel Allag, Media365, published on Monday November 10, 2025 at 8:18 a.m.
Defeated on the wire against PSG on Sunday evening at Groupama Stadium (2-3), OL did not hide their anger at the refereeing of Benoît Bastien. From Jorge Maciel to Corentin Tolisso and Matthieu Louis-Jean, all had strong outings.
The Lyonnais couldn’t take it anymore on Sunday evening. At the end of a cruel defeat conceded ten to eleven against PSG in added time following the goal of João Neves (scorer in the 90th + 5), many let their anger explode, including Jorge Maciel, the assistant coach of the Rhone club (at the Ligue 1+ microphone): “When it goes one way, we don’t understand. Especially when it happens in arrogance. The best team in Europe does not need to play with 16, I count VAR too. It wasn’t the perfect match on our part but these decisions impact the match. Paris’ second goal is a scandal. Nico’s (Tagliafico) action before half-time was a penalty and a red card. Maybe the referees are as tired as the players before the break… The most important thing is that we really think: what rules are we playing with? This week is one, the next week is another. And often, one team is more advantaged than another.”
Louis-Jean: “It distorts our Championship”
The captain of OL, Corentin Tolisso, who of course deplored the goal conceded at the end, called for consistency in the refereeing, noting that OL had not necessarily been helped in this register since the start of the season (in the mixed zone): “For the refereeing, I have not reviewed all the images. Beyond all that, we have to do better with refereeing in general because there are mistakes every weekend. I saw Monaco’s red again, it’s rubbish, while Khalis Merah in Rennes takes a huge sole and there’s nothing. We don’t understand everything that’s going on, there needs to be more dialogue. Things are explained to us at the beginning of the year but that is not what is applied. This season, we are paying very dearly for the refereeing level.”
Sometimes accustomed to important outings, sports director Matthieu Louis-Jean also put Benoît Bastien and his teams in charge of refereeing, after the meeting between OL and PSG: “Now, I am here to say that there is a penalty from Zabarnyi, it is a hand-made one. It’s very clear. On Tessmann, there is a foul before PSG’s 2nd goal, he (Vitinha) touches the knee, it is extremely clear. We no longer know what to do. We asked them questions, we tried to understand… What must be done to have correct arbitration? It distorts our Championship, we can come back to the match in Rennes too, among other things… Mr. Bastien’s refereeing was a disaster. This is the first time we are taking up the battle because we are helpless. This means a lot to us, what can we do? We fight with our means. They put reds on us in all matches… and against Strasbourg it took 5 minutes to send off a Strasbourg resident who had made an attack on Fofana who was injured. We’re fed up.”
