Next time, Marco Verratti will have to turn his tongue seven times in his mouth before talking about refereeing. On February 19, after the defeat against Nantes (3-1), the midfielder had entrusted the arbitration of Mikaël Lesage during this meeting.
At the microphone of Canal +, that evening, Marco Verratti had declared “It is not possible that we take 10 yellow cards (6 in reality). We cannot speak with the referee, we cannot do anything. He is the only referee in the world who can do a thing like that. Sometimes the referees have to take responsibility, because there we got shit on it with the referees”.
The Italian’s suspension starting on March 8s, he will miss the reception of Bordeaux on March 13 but will be available in Nice on Saturday, according to this decision of the disciplinary committee, meeting Wednesday evening in Paris.