• Lille were deprived of a more than obvious penalty Tuesday night in Seville after a foul by Delaney on David.

  • Nothing detrimental in the end for Lille who won but also suffered from a strange arbitration.

It is the most obvious penalty in history which will therefore not have been whistled.

With a few hours of hindsight, Lille, their supporters, the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium and viewers still wonder how Mr. Kovacs, the Romanian referee of the match, could not have whistled in the 17th minute Delaney's fault on David in the middle of the penalty area

If Losc finally won in Andalusia (1-2), at that time of the game, the Northerners had just conceded a goal and therefore thought they had a chance to equalize.

Despite the VAR, despite the slowdowns, despite the evidence, the game director did not reverse his decision.

As if the blind had taken command of the VAR truck for a few seconds.

"It's not even a story of interpretation, I don't understand"

"Why was the penalty not whistled on Jonathan David?"

No matter how much I look, I look again, I don't understand.

It is not even a story of interpretation, I do not understand ”, recognizes Jocelyn Gourvennec, coach of Losc.

Fortunately, despite this twist of fate which would have annoyed more than one, Lille remained calm. “We did not come out of our match unlike what we did in Salzburg where we took a disputed penalty. This is where we are also progressing because we stayed in the game and we were rewarded for that ”, rejoices the technician northerner.

Because after this obvious theft, Lille ended up obtaining compensation just before the break thanks to a less obvious penalty but transformed by David.

Still, the whims of the referee did not stop in the second period.

By lining up twelve yellow cards (six on each side), Mr. Kovacs spoiled a tense end of the game.

Anything but trivial for Lille which will be deprived of André and Ikoné suspended for the next Champions League match against Salzburg.

The fault of refereeing closer to a district match than to the Champions League.

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