After the victory of Olympique Lyonnais over Olympique de Marseille (1-0), a disputed action made a lot of talk on social networks.
This “Olympico” has confirmed a funny trend. Everything is going well in Lyon at the moment, when we feared the worst for the Gones, due to the club’s financial situation, and the successive departures of many executives. And not much is going to Marseille, which ends the first month of the season in crisis, while all the fires seemed to be green before the start of the season.
The final result (1-0) obeyed a form of logic, because the men of Paulo Fonseca were generally superior to those of Roberto de Zerbi. This was the case from the first half hour, and the exclusion of CJ Egan-Riley in the 29th minute did not help the Phocaeans to reverse the trend.
Victory also helps Lyonnais not to talk too much about the arbitration, even if some supporters did not digest the goal refused in the first period, on a corner. The referee François Letexier whistled a charge on the guardian Geronimo Rulli, and the Var found nothing to complain about it. In slow motion, with the camera placed behind the Marseilles goal, we see Tanner Tessmann place himself in the race of the Marseille porter and hinder him.
Fail or not on Rulli?
On another angle, the situation is different. With a video filmed by a spectator from the stands, behind the corner post, we see Rulli taking hold of Tessmann. Clearly, the former Montpellier player does not seem to make every effort in the world to stand up. And some Lyon supporters even accuse the Marseille goalkeeper of having simulated …
Asked about this action at halftime, on the Ligue 1+ channel, Geronimo Rulli said that he had received a blow at the shoulder and face. According to him, there was a lot of us, but it would have been surprising that he said the opposite.
