Portuguese OM Nuno Tavares received a three-match suspension for his humorous gesture at the end of the match against Montpellier (2-1) last Monday in Ligue 1.
Disqualified in Montpellier, Nuno Tavares (22) was disqualified for a heavy blow received by Arnaud Souquet at the end of the match on Monday night, with severe punishment. The Disciplinary Committee ruled a three-match ban.
The Portuguese will miss Marseille’s Coupe de France match against Hyères on Saturday (3:30pm) and then the Ligue 1 matches against Troyes (January 11) and Lorient (January 14).
“He has lost his mind,” according to Tudor
The author of a good game with the first goal of the match scored at the beginning of the second half, the OM player cracked at the end of the match by hitting his opponent with a brush. The player was penalized with a first yellow card for his gesture, then a second yellow for protesting, the player received a straight red card after the video assist intervention (87).
Marseille reduced to ten, and took the reduction in the result of Tigi Savanier from the penalty spot, after a failed exit in the fist of Pau Lopez, but Homme continued to win through the smallest gaps (2-1).
“He’s out of his mind. He’ll get a good fine. It can happen, but he’ll be fined, because he’ll punish us in the future. I hope it’s a lesson for him because he’s still young,” OM coach Igor Tudor replied at a post-match press conference.
OM currently sits third in the Ligue 1 standings, eight points behind PSG and four behind Lens. On Wednesday, the Disciplinary Committee also took measures to suspend Parisian defender Ashraf Hakimi due to the accumulation of yellow cards. The Moroccan, who is currently departing, will not be able to play for Paris Saint-Germain against Angers on January 11 in the French League.
