Pascal Garibian wants to be transparent. The technical director of the French arbitration, conceded Tuesday that the penalty awarded to Marseille against Lyon, at the closing match of the 13th day of Ligue 1, "should have been canceled." He had led to the first goal of Dimitri Payet, author of a double in the success of OM against OL (2-1).

It's an image that could have changed everything. A plan that the referees responsible for the video refereeing have never seen, but who could have tipped the Marseilles - Lyon already boiling. That of the "ball that falls on the hand of Marseillais Morgan Sanson" in the Lyon area, just seconds before another foul, that of Thiago Mendes, resulting in a penalty for OM.

Sanson's offensive hand

Except that this penalty awarded to Marseille in the victory (2-1) against Lyon Sunday in Ligue 1 should not have been granted, admitted Tuesday, the technical director of the arbitration. "Actually, technically, this penalty should have been canceled," said Pascal Garibian during a press visit from the VAR viewing center in Paris. Dimitri Payet opened the scoring after a hand whistled against Lyon's Thiago Mendes. But the Marseillan Morgan Sanson had also touched the ball of the hand on the same action a few seconds earlier, a sequence that had not been spotted by the referees VAR. "There was offensive hand from Sanson, we should have canceled the goal" and therefore the penalty on the basis of the laws of the game, said Pascal Garibian.

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The broadcaster Canal + however broadcast the images a few minutes later. "The realization (of the chain) has released the images only eight minutes after the hand of Sanson," he added, referring to "a situation imperfectly mastered." Olympique Lyonnais president Jean-Michel Aulas lamented after the "big mistakes" match by referee Antony Gautier, while Rudi Garcia said on Monday that the use of the VAR should be improved.