Stéphane Moulin (Caen) after the defeat in Le Havre: “It’s scandalous, it’s shameful”

Stéphane Moulin, the coach of Caen, after the defeat in Le Havre (1-2) : (He brandishes his phone on which an image of the foul leading to the penalty is displayed) “In the penalty area or outside the penalty area? So. Well then, there is the match, we lost. But hey, we don’t get gifts like that.

Four matches out of seven where there is a penalty which is disputed against us. This one isn’t contentious, it’s outrageous, it’s shameful, it’s a mistake. I will still be lenient with the referees because they still had, for once, the decency to recognize at the end of the match that they were wrong. So that’s still a good point. We must still recognize that everyone has the right to be wrong, we also the coaches, the players.

At the same time, the images are so telling that it would be difficult to go against the images. We were victims of that last year against Dijon, nothing has changed. And so we continue. In Ligue 1, the referees have the right to make mistakes because they are helped. In Ligue 2, they have the right to make mistakes but we stay with the errors. So we are not moving forward. It makes wrong matches because this (Friday) evening, it is a result which is erroneous. I’m sorry to say it but it’s like that and it takes absolutely nothing away from Le Havre. Let’s be very clear.

But (Friday) evening, we made… I’m sorry, maybe I’m going to be suspended so I’m going to be careful what I say because it’s like that in France too: even when we know that the referee made a mistake, hush, you mustn’t say anything. Here, after the penalty not whistled against Pau with the hand, after the penalty not whistled in Paris on an incredible fault by Ali Abdi, after a very very contentious penalty in Dijon… that’s a lot for us. »