Ravanelli: “I did not fall alone” – Sports.fr

Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain will meet this weekend at the Velodrome on behalf of the 25th day of Ligue 1. While the rivalry between these two clubs has largely faded, Fabrizio Ravanelli has returned to one of the highlights of these fierce battles that pitted the two teams in the 1990s

It was November 8, 1997, at Parc des Princes. That day, Olympique Marseille or Xavier Laurent Blanc came Gravelaine win (1-2) at the Porte de Saint-Cloud. At that time, the rivalry between the two clubs was still alive, fabricated in the early 1990s and returned to the same page time that the Phoenicians had found the hexagonal elite after two years following the Ligue 2 ‘VA-OM case. For fans of Sky and White, this remains an excellent memory, the necessarily painful contrast to the opposite camp.

For that day, visitors had earned a penalty kick by Fabrizio Ravanelli, still challenged twenty years later. The Marseille striker transalpine managed to overtake Éric Rabésandratana on the left of the critical zone between the area with the old driver from Nancy on the heels, then collapses. The director of the game means the penalty spot, and this is the current coach of the club from the capital will give the victory to his dumbfounded before a Parc des Princes. Was the penalty justified or not? While televisions have spent hours and hours of slow, no one even gets to safeguard the objectivity if light contact there has been between the left knee of the defender and the attacker right calf.

Éric Rabésandratana ensures not having touched his direct opponent, that it continues to challenge. “ After 19 years, some are still trying to find out if I express to fall, it makes me laugh , responds Ravanelli in a report recently published on L’Equipe 21. But defender touched me. I did not fall alone. It was not deliberate but the referee did well to whistle the penalty “. Penna Bianca, however, takes a step later, during a telephone conversation with former Parisian Pierre Ducocq, releasing a “ that’s life ” with a smile. Everyone will at least agree not to challenge the amplification of the consequences of possible contact.