Lyon’s Italian coach, Fabio Grosso, was later injured when the team bus was subjected to a barrage of stones and other objects upon arrival at the Marseille stadium, shortly before the league match with the local team led by Gennaro Gattuso.
The front right window of the bus was smashed and others were damaged. From images from the Prime Video broadcaster, Grosso appears with a bloody face, then with a bandage on his head as he left the infirmary located in the corridors of the Velodrome stadium. According to L’Equipe, his deputy, Raffaele Longo, was also hit.
The Ligue 1 match will not be played tonight between Marseille and Lionei, preceded by the attack on the visiting team’s bus which injured the coach, Fabio Grosso, and other occupants of the vehicle. The referee of the match announced this, as reported by the French media.
President of Lyon, ‘we were not the ones who asked for the postponement’
“Fabio Grosso is in a state of shock, he couldn’t speak normally, he had glass fragments in his face. I’m furious, our players, our coach, had prepared for this evening, the fans wanted to see the match”: he says , on Prime Video, the president of Lyon, John Textor, after the attack on the team bus and the postponement of the match against Marseille.
“I didn’t ask to cancel the match – continued Textor – the Ligue told us that they would speak to the team. Our players, our captain, were incredible in the locker room, they wanted to play, they were ready to play. The decision didn’t depend on us, it came to us when we were outside the stadium.” “It is unacceptable – concluded Textor – this is not the football we would like to play”.
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