• OGC Nice lost 2 goals to 1 on Sunday evening at the Stade Vélodrome against Olympique de Marseille in the closing match of the 29th day of Ligue 1.

  • The Niçois see themselves trailing three points from their evening opponent in the race for 2nd place in Ligue 1.

  • The Nice leaders believe that a penalty should have been whistled on Delort, after his duel with Saliba in the second half.

At the Velodrome stadium,

The great anger of the people of Nice.

Manager, coach and player of Nice, all castigated the decision of referee Jérôme Brisard not to whistle a penalty on Andy Delort in the second half, during the defeat (2-1) of OGC Nice against Olympique de Marseille, Sunday at the Vélodrome stadium.

The Marseillais led 1-0 thanks to the opener of the score of Milik, on penalty, after a fault of Todibo on Under just before half-time (45 + 4).

A penalty "justly granted" by the admission of Christophe Galtier, the Nice coach, unlike the one not whistled on his attacker.

"The Marseille players tell me that there is red and a penalty"

We play the 72nd minute when Andy Delort and William Saliba are dueling in the area of ​​​​Pau Lopez.

“I try to distance myself from the defender, there are two players in front of me and precisely when I see the cross coming, I don't even see the player behind me and I accelerate.

I thought I had the ball and there is contact.

I think it takes my legs and upper body.

We see that there is contact, ”reported the attacker in the mixed zone.

Except that Jérôme Brisard did not whistle the penalty, and the VAR did not judge him.

“There is no photo, there is this fact of the game which for me is scandalous.

There is a fault and the Marseille players, the first, tell me that there is red and a penalty.

That's what I find outrageous.

On the penalty in the first half, we whistle and we'll see.

We don't whistle, and the VAR doesn't even look at the action, it's very complicated, ”he reacted strongly.

A few minutes earlier, it was Julien Fournier, director of football in Nice, who drew the first at the microphone of Prime Video: “The arbitration was for us below everything.

Even the fourth referee indicated to our coach that there was a penalty.

Today, we walk on the head.

A referee can make a mistake on the field it goes fast.

But we will say the same things again, there is the VAR.

She is also there to correct the errors of the referee and I believe that the VAR did not do their job tonight.

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“Several human errors”

A feeling finally shared by everyone on the Nice side, up to coach Christophe Galtier.

“Obviously this is an important turning point.

How can an attacker who has the advantage over his defender fake, or want to fall, when he has the advantage?

As much as OM's penalty was whistled quickly, but logically.

As much on this fault, even if the referee does not whistle, it is obvious that he must be checked.

To err is human, but there are several human errors and I am firmly convinced of that, ”he castigated, a week after a red already deemed severe against Dante, whose absence weighed on Sunday evening.

Except that when reviewing the images, a slight contact seems to exist between William Saliba and Andy Delort, but not to the point of crying scandal.

But a week after the red received by Dante against Montpellier, already considered severe, and whose absence weighed on Sunday evening, this defeat leaves a bitter taste in Nice.

But they should have come back to the score sooner, even without this penalty.

Above all, it costs them the podium, two points behind Rennes who atomized Metz (6-1).

The Rennais, considered by Galtier as "the best current team in the championship", will meet the Niçois just after the international break.

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