Fine: The Technical Director of Arbitration recognizes that the VAR should intervene

This Friday, Day 22 of Ligue 1 kicked off with a clash between OGC Nice and OL. The meeting was won by Lyonnais (1-0) but was marked by major controversies surrounding the arbitration. On two occasions, Nicois should undoubtedly have received a penalty. But Clement Turpin was unfazed and VAR did not intervene. Enough to infuriate the Rivera club and particularly its president Jean-Pierre Rivera, who did not hesitate to point the finger at arbitration after the meeting. “Turpin needs to question himself. If there is a penalty you have to explain to me about the first action. On the second action, he whistles against. Terrific Mr. Turpin. At the end of the meeting, he told me “Don’t touch me, point at me. Don’t”! He’s an arrogant guy, he needs to convince me.”

Especially explained the nice president.

In a column in Nice-Matin this Sunday, the technical director of arbitration, Stéphane Lalnoy, sought to justify Clement Turpin’s selections. “I thought I understood from the reactions that the match provoked that the two situations were confused. There is contact between number 29 of Nice (Goosend) and number 55 of Lyon (Caleta-Car) in the penalty area. The defender hits Nicois in the chest with his hands, in a contact game by nature. Based on this principle, we cannot fully consider that this is a manifest error in terms of protocol. Even TV consultants last night did not agree that the contact was scandalous. We are in the middle of a question of interpretation. This is nothing like an arm load tackle… it’s hard to compare arm and leg movements. It’s not quite the same thing. Here, it is not even the position of the forearm of the face. Which caused controversy in the 82nd minute. Clement Turpin was slightly embarrassed during the action, due to his position on the pitch. He has to move to the left to leave room for the players and the action ends on the right. He is not ideally positioned and believes the Nice striker is the first to unbalance Tagliafico. »