The players and the sporting director of the capital club have it bad. After the defeat against Nantes, which they readily recognize as logical in the game, several of them pointed out the errors or the choices of the referee Mikael Lesage. “I will try to be calm, I will breathe before speaking”released Leonardo at the microphone of Canal +. “It’s not about losing, I think Nantes deserved to win”continued the sports director of PSG.
A few moments earlier, Marco Verratti had launched hostilities: “We also have to give them credit. The chances they created for themselves, he turned them into goals.” But very quickly, the subject of referees came to the fore for the two men from the capital. “How come we get ten yellow cards and we can’t even talk to the referee. There’s nothing we can do. He’s the only referee in the world to do things like that”lamented the Italian at the end of his interview. “Sometimes the referees have to take their responsibilities because there I think we got shit on it with the referees”he concluded vehemently.
Nicolas Pallois’ fault on Kylian (Mbappé), he did not even whistle it. Then he gives Appiah red but it’s not a red. Before the game he says the VAR is not working and afterwards it works again. On the penalty, it was Appiah who made the mistake, he already had the yellow card: it should have been a second yellow.
The Italian sporting director of PSG notably targets faults suffered by his players, such as Nicolas Palois’ strong tackle on Kylian Mbappé in the first period. “After that, you risk having players three months out like Kylian (Mbappé), like Neymar, like Wijnaldum”. And Leonardo added, about the 3-0 penalty scored by Ludovic Blas just before half-time: “There was a minute of additional time announced and the penalty is whistled in the fourth. Against us, there is the desire to say “I whistle at you.
To finish, Leonardo wanted to congratulate his opponents of the day again while attacking, once again, the performance of the referee: “We didn’t win and it’s deserved. Hats off to Nantes. I’m very happy for Kombouaré. But if we look at the management of arbitration in relation to our club, it’s annoying.”