Nice defender Jean-Clair Todibo volition rapidly privation to hide this crippled aft helium was sent disconnected conscionable 9 seconds into his side's 1-0 location decision to Angers.
The erstwhile Barcelona cardinal defender tripped Abdallah Sima arsenic helium was moving done connected extremity and referee Bastien Dechepy had nary hesitation showing him the fastest reddish paper successful French archetypal part history.
"A refereeing determination that shocks maine and condemned my squad to commencement the lucifer astatine a large disadvantage," Todibo wrote connected his Twitter relationship successful a connection that has subsequently been deleted. "Referee's decisions astatine the commencement of this play person been precise questionable and I anticipation the LFP (French league) does thing to remedy this."
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Angers besides finished with 10 players aft midfielder Sofiane Boufal was sent disconnected successful the 62nd minute, but Nice couldn't find an equaliser to midfielder Nabil Bentaleb's good 20-metre onslaught for Angers successful the 43rd.
Marseille remains unbeaten but dropped points successful a 1-1 location gully with Rennes wherever midfielder Matteo Guendouzi scored astatine some ends.
Rennes took the pb midway done the archetypal fractional astatine Stade Velodrome erstwhile Guendouzi scored an own-goal by deflecting successful Hamari Traoré's cross.
He made amends successful the 52nd erstwhile helium headed location from a country past erstwhile Marseille goalie Steve Mandanda, who played much than 600 games for Marseille and captained the nine for galore years.
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