The current season ofOlympique Marseille He is not experiencing idyllic moments with arbitrage. After a first penalty in Ligue 1, in fact, Medhi Benatia He received three months of disqualification on the choice of the disciplinary commission of the French Football Association following the tensions during the sixteenth of the French Cup final against Lille.
A decision that the Sports Director of the OM lived very badly: “What I lived against Lille … one of the biggest humiliations of my life”, clearly explained the former defender of Rome and Juventus – among others – in an interview with the newspaper The team. Benatia paid a high price his behavior with the fourth man in the cup match mentioned, but he himself ensured that he had not threatened the man in question, Jérémy Stinat.
Benatia reiterated her version of the facts: “I went to calm my coach (Roberto De Zerbi, ed), to quell the situation. In the end, the situation overheats, I have nothing to do with it, the game ended, I did not come to press, I have alone Said to the fourth man: ‘Tell him, however, there was penalty there’. Before denouncing the disparity of treatment against him: “Show me the rule that says that I can’t be there. There were sixty people that evening. Mr. Turpin (race director on the field, editor’s note) did not see anything, he only came to give me a red card. You feel miserable , not treated like the others “, the shy.