Big anger at OM

Forced to a draw by Strasbourg (1-1), Olympique de Marseille did not let up after the match. Consequence of a contentious situation in the area which could have earned a penalty in favor of Ciel et Blanc.

New stopping neck for Olympique de Marseille. Five days after their elimination against Lille in the Coupe de France, OM were left to also be disillusioned in the championship. Winners of their first two Ligue 1 matches in 2025 – against Le Havre then Rennes – the Ciel et Blanc this time had to settle for a draw at home against Strasbourg (1-1).

Surprised by Emanuel Emegha in the first half, Roberto de Zerbi's men recovered slightly after the break, equalizing thanks to a penalty converted by Mason Greenwood shortly after the hour mark, but remained too short to snatch victory. The fault, for the Marseille camp, was a decision by the referee of the match, Bastien Depechy, who did not whistle a new penalty despite a push from a Strasbourg defender on Jonathan Rowe at the entrance to the area.

The Olympians were red with anger at the end of the match. However, Roberto de Zerbi took care to contain himself. “ I only want to talk about football. For the rest, you can speak with my president. I don't want to get into controversy. I'm Italian, it's your championship, it's up to you to talk about that”, he said at the microphone of DAZN.

OM cries conspiracy

But Pablo Longoria got the job done for two.

“I don't like to speak out after matches to say goodbye. Until when? You know the repetition. The penalty action on Rowe is a scandal,

he cursed. What more do you need? How far will we get with Olympique de Marseille? Why doesn't VAR intervene? You played football. An action during which he does not play the ball, he puts his hand behind his back, an obvious action, it is a penalty for life! »

“It’s too much! That's too many matches! What are we looking for? Are we looking to penalize? If we are critical of the arbitration, they seek to penalize us even more… I don't understand and I want to express myself to say that, he continued. That's too many decisions since the start of the season. In the first half I'm obviously not happy, in the second we added a lot of elements and we changed the dynamic of the match. But at some point we can't accept that! And I don't accept it because every weekend, it's the same thing! »

And the Olympian players were on the same line like Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg. “I understood that here, I don’t know, we see things differently, no problem. But there are some things that are obvious. When it's obvious and we also have television, in my opinion we can't miss things like that, he also castigated. Afterwards, if there is no VAR on the pitch and the referee has to make a choice very quickly, like Tuesday in the Coupe de France, I understand that there are sometimes human errors. Now world football has invested in VAR, why aren't we using it? “