While Nantes conceded a heavy defeat on the pitch of Olympique Lyonnais (3-0), its president, Waldemar Kita, made a big rant against the arbitration.
Nantes sank a little further. Traveling on the pitch at Groupama Stadium, the Canaries lost heavily (3-0) and remained stuck in the 16the place in the Ligue 1 standings, only ahead of Metz, the first relegated team, on goal difference.
But at the end of the match, if Waldemar Kita had a bad time, it was due to the refereeing in Ligue 1. The president of FC Nantes could not digest the red card received by Junior Mwanga in the 43rd minute of play following a high foot on Hans Hateboer.
The two teams were then at 0-0 and the referee of the match, Mr. Kherradji, was convinced by the VAR images. “There, there is never a red card, we unbalance the match”, he began first in front of the microphones.
“This is not normal”
“There are things we don’t understand and will never understand. This is not normal. When I talk to people from Lyon, they agree with me because it happens to them too”he continued, adding: “At some point, we’re going to have to reset certain things. Today, the League is not rich and we have not changed anything in terms of the payroll and the packages we give to arbitration. Meetings are useless. It will never change. We are being shown that we are the problem and not them. »
And the Nantes people could have had it all the worse as at the end of the match, a goal was refused to them for a not very obvious fault.
“I still don’t understand. I don’t think it’s fair,” regretted defender Chidozie Awaziem at the Ligue 1+ microphone.
