PSG / OM – The FFF analyzes Vitinha’s fault

Throughout the PSG / OM match, PSG midfielder Vitinha may have been excluded for a sole on Leonardo Balerdi’s ankle. However the FFF confirmed the choice of referee Willy Delajod to not exclude the Portuguese.

If PSG delivered a efficiency final Sunday in opposition to Olympique de Marseille (5-0), Luis Enrique’s crew may have been rapidly diminished to 10 within the ninth minute of play. After an uncalled foul on Senny Mayulu, Vitinha, struggling to recuperate the ball, wiped his crampons on Leonardo Balerdi’s ankle. The referee of the match, Willy Delajod, solely warned the Portuguese of a yellow card.

A number of days after this twenty first day of Ligue 1, the FFF refereeing division analyzed sure conditions and selections taken in the course of the weekend’s matches and notably returned to this contentious motion in the course of the Traditional. And the physique helps referee Willy Delajod in having warned the Parisian midfielder of a yellow card. “The Parisian participant intervenes together with his left leg ahead and his sole comes into contact with the fitting shin of the Marseille participant. Nevertheless, the contact just isn’t accompanied by extended assist and the Parisian participant’s leg is within the means of folding, which limits the bodily affect. Consequently, the absence of extreme depth within the gesture permits the referee to think about that the exclusion just isn’t inevitable. The choice of the referee, notably exact in his evaluation on the sphere, doesn’t correspond to a manifest error throughout the which means of the Legal guidelines of the sport” defined the FFF refereeing division, in its debrief of the twenty first day of Ligue 1.

The VAR referee, Nicolas Rainville, confirmed his preliminary resolution to Willy Delajod: “Vitinha’s sort out is an effective yellow, the only real could be very excessive. For me, it nonetheless lacks the assist, the robust affect on the shin,” he mentioned from the VAR truck.