Aké, Amavi, Benedetto, Caleta-Car and Strootman. Five of the fourteen players used by André Villas-Boas in Lille (1-2, Sunday) were given a yellow card. "Going out with five yellow cards for us and zero for Lille, while they played with the same aggressiveness, it is not possible," annoyed the Marseille coach, this Thursday at a press conference. He believes in particular that the yellow card against Kevin Strootman is "impossible to understand" and that this arbitration was "absurd".
"The team is the hardest hit in the last three years, it's not just a curiosity," said the Marseille coach, bringing up the great theory of anti-OM referee conspiracy. His staff sent a file to Pascal Garibian, the technical director of arbitration.
He did not respond, said André Villas-Boas, who said it was "a statistical observation, not a criticism." OM have collected 61 yellow cards this season, a record in Ligue 1. In the little cracker game (sorry), Marseille is very far ahead of its first pursuer, Monaco, whose players received 51 yellow cards (but seven direct red cards, against three for OM).
"AVB" finally considered that it was not responsible for this situation: "You asked me if it was because of me, if OM are more aggressive, do more pressing, speak with the referees and seeks confrontation. But the problem is that the study of my staff covers three years. "
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