Benatia: The referee robbed Marseille, all evidence shows it was a 12-yard
6686 Sports News on November 6th In the fourth round of the Champions League that ended early this morning, Marseille's home team lost 0-1 to Atalanta. There were two controversial decisions in this game.
In the 61st minute of the game, Marseille attacked and the ball hit an Atlanta player in the three-second zone. The referee had no reaction. Another time was when Atlanta's Samardzic scored the last shot from the outside. His teammate Ederson had already taken the ball first. Marseille sports director Benatia was extremely dissatisfied with this. In an interview with reporters, he talked about the referee's controversial decision.
"For me, yes. It's hard to accept. They say it's a natural position (Ederson's arms are away from the torso, below), but I don't think it's natural to have the arms that way. You see Aubameyang preparing to hit the goal, and the arms completely change the trajectory of the ball. What they told us in the meeting at the beginning of the year... to me, all signs pointed to twelve yards. And then we conceded that fateful goal, so it was obviously a huge one. Responsibility."
"I wish the referee would have at least looked at the video replay, because if there was any doubt, it was probably a 12-yarder. It was a goal with two minutes left in the game, and he should have at least looked at the replay and made a better judgment and took responsibility. Obviously, when you negotiate with them, they almost don't look at you. This is more annoying to me than the 12-yard score." 
"They are so arrogant and it is disturbing. We also want to talk about football itself. Unfortunately, we cannot change the mistakes of referees. We are not the only ones complaining about referee mistakes, whether in league matches or in the Champions League; this will continue to happen, but we should not focus on it."
"If you want to discuss referees and match situations , we can say that the ruling in Madrid was very harsh, but I always prefer to focus on what we can change. In Madrid, we did not play at our best level, and that is a bit worrying, because the players who played tonight are in good condition and are fully capable of going head-to-head."
