After the defeat in Nantes (3-1) on Saturday evening, Marco Verratti had not hidden his anger towards the arbitration of Mikaël Lesage.
On Canal +, he had thus launched: “If you allow me, I would like to say one thing.
How is it possible that we take ten yellow cards
(6 in fact)
and that we cannot speak with the referee?
We can not do anything.
Sometimes we can, but here we couldn't at all.
It's the only game and the only referee in the world with whom we couldn't do it.
On the penalty, he (Appiah) must take yellow and it's red... The referees must take their responsibilities.
There, we got pissed off!
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This Monday, as reported by the L'Equipe website, the National Ethics Council (CNE) of the French Federation (FFF) decided to seize the Disciplinary Committee of the League following his remarks which therefore expose now the midfielder to a penalty.
Note that Verratti is already suspended for the reception of Saint-Étienne following the accumulation of three yellow cards in ten games.
If he were to be suspended for his remarks, the sanction would undoubtedly apply to the reception of Bordeaux, March 13 (1 p.m.).
After his appearance on TV, Verratti stopped in the mixed zone, he was asked what he would have liked to be able to say to M?
The wise.
"Ah, many things!" he replied.
Because it is not possible.
(…) It is not the fact that he missed his match or not.
Me, I'm the first to have missed passes and everything.
But when we are on the ground, we are always told: “We have to respect, we have to respect.
“But they (the referees), they are aggressive from the first moments against us!
They speak badly to us.
This is what I do not understand.
Whistle a fault or not, it does not matter.
But there are principles.
Conversely, still according to L'Equipe, Leonardo, the sporting director of PSG, who had also complained of arbitration decisions, was not the subject of a referral to the disciplinary committee.
“There are so many faults on our players, he lamented.
But he says:
No, no, it's Neymar, it's Mbappé, I'm not whistling!
It's Messi, I don't whistle, it's Paris Saint-Germain, I don't whistle!
-…)
Afterwards, the referee doesn't even want to talk: it's me, I know everything… We ask for a little respect for that.
Because we feel a little embarrassed.
It's too direct.
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