Stade Rennais midfielder Clément Grenier, here during the loss to LOSC on January 24, 2021 at Roazhon Park.

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“Clement got carried away.

He immediately calmed down in the locker room.

The precision of the Stade Rennais service, dropped when there were not many people left in the press room, is important.

An hour earlier, his midfielder Clément Grenier had curiously pulled out during the post-match Canal + interview, knocking out the arbitration of Eric Wattellier just after the 1-0 defeat conceded against Losc: “He speaks badly, says things that are aggressive during the game while we are focused on our game.

He tells me throughout the match that he will referee against us ”.

An exit as noticed as incomprehensible.

If the match was regularly chopped by faults, we were far from the referee scandal portrayed by the former Lyonnais.

In the first half, Clément Grenier was given a logical yellow card for having challenged a whistle, it is true very severe, against him.

Sunday, the arbitration had even saved the Rennes from a penalty for a very limited offside from Jonathan David at the start of the action.

“It's football.

We have to move on ”

Decisions that the two coaches refused to comment on after the meeting.

For his part, captain Hamari Traoré insisted on putting things into perspective: “Clém 'is a competitor like us all.

In the match, there can be exchanges but there is nothing to be controversial about.

It's football.

We have to move on.

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The other thing for Rennes, it will be a trip to Marseille on Saturday.

In the first leg, the match was extremely tense and Olympian midfielder Pape Gueye was sent off by Clément Turpin.

Defeated, the Marseillais, André Villas Boas in the lead, had openly criticized the referee.

Each in turn.

Asked by

L'Equipe

, the technical director of refereeing Pascal Garibian believes "that at no time has Mr. Wattellier disrespected Clément Grenier or any other player", specifying that he keeps the recordings available. exchanges of the match referee.

This little controversy has allowed some to recall that it would be useful to draw inspiration from rugby to broadcast the referee's words live on television.

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