The FFF refereeing debrief for Matchday 8 did not overturn either flashpoint. On the Auxerre side, the video referees said they could not find any image that contradicted the goal-line technology signal. On the Marseille side, Neal Maupay's late hand contact was ruled accidental and not punishable.

The Auxerre goal-line call

The best-known dispute came in Auxerre's match, where the FFF said the available images did not allow certainty either way, but also could not disprove the goal-line technology signal. That leaves the original decision in place, even if it has not stopped the argument around it.

Will Still, speaking to So Foot in comments translated from French, said: "what we see on the 3D slow-motion replay of goal-line technology is Paul’s glove". That is the lens through which the complaint was made, but the refereeing department did not see enough to reverse the call.

Auxerre's league position is 12th with 10 points after 8 matches, so this is not a crisis-table story. It is still the sort of decision that lingers when the margins are this tight.

Maupay's late handball

The other major ruling involved Marseille and Le Havre. Didier Digard, speaking to So Foot, relayed the FFF's explanation that the ball first came off Maupay's foot, his right hand stayed in a natural position, and no clear movement showed intent to deliberately touch it. The contact was therefore not punishable under the Laws of the Game.

Digard's frustration came against a difficult run for Le Havre, who are 18th with 2 points after 8 matches. For Marseille, the incident sat inside an uneven start of their own, with 12 points and an 8th-place position after 8 matches.

Maupay has 7 Ligue 1 appearances this season and 159 minutes, so the incident mattered more as a late-match flashpoint than as part of a big scoring run. The FFF's line was clear enough on the facts it accepted, and the debate from Matchday 8 now sits with the clubs rather than the referees.

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