Kylian Mbappé attacked Stéphanie Fracpart at halftime of the match between Real Madrid and Arsenal. Consequence of the penalty canceled by François Letexier.
Kylian Mbappé experienced a real ordeal on Wednesday on the lawn of Santiago Bernabeu. Eight days after spanking received at the Emirates Stadium (3-0), Real Madrid again underwent the Arsenal law (1-2) and was therefore eliminated from the Champions League from the quarter-finals. And the tricolor striker will never have managed to weigh on the debates.
The former Parisian believed that he could launch the operation goes back in the first period. Consequence of the penalty whistled by François Letexier in his favor after being slightly surrounded in the surface by Declan Rice (23e). But invited by the Var to review the images of the action, the French referee finally returned to his decision and canceled the penalty.
And the Madrid could have it all the worse in the very beginning of the match, François Letexier had whistled a first penalty in favor of Arsenal due to a similar attachment between Raul Asencio on Mikel Merino. And this time the Var had found nothing to complain about, Thibaut Courtois finally pushing the attempt by Panenka by Bukayo Saka.
Kylian Mbappé did not understand
At halftime, Kylian Mbappé did not hesitate to say his way of thinking of Stéphanie Fropart, fourth referee of the meeting. This is evidenced by the sequence captured by the cameras of Canal+. “It’s the same in the surface. The other, you saw it. And there you have not seen it ”, he launched him as he returned to the locker room.
After the match, the Madrid, however, hardly talked about arbitration, well aware of the domination of the Gunners over the two matches. “But if we are honest, even if this (Wednesday) evening we were much better in terms of intensity, we must accept and recognize that Arsenal was higher on the two matches. They defended very well and we had difficulty finding spaces ”, said Carlo Ancelotti at a press conference.
