We already knew the date, but still had to determine the location. Thursday, November 9, the Professional Football League (LFP) announced that the match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and its Lyon counterpart (OL) will be played at the Stade-Vélodorme on December 6. The match counting for the tenth day of the French championship (Ligue 1) was initially scheduled for October 29, but its kick-off was canceled after the Rhone bus was stoned. The location of the postponement was the subject of tension between the two clubs. The Lyonnais hoped to play the match at the Stade-Vélodrome behind closed doors, or on a neutral pitch. For their part, the Phocaeans explained that they wanted to host OL again in front of their supporters.
The LFP has decided “following the information and guarantees transmitted by the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture”, she explained in a press release. The evening before, its disciplinary committee, contacted by its president, Vincent Labrune, had announced that it would not take disciplinary action on the violence of October 29. “After having read the elements of the file and proceeded to the hearing of the two clubs”the Commission “ notes that the incidents which occurred on public roads are not likely to give rise to the liability of the organizing club”it is written in the press release.
Thursday morning, OL announced that it was appealing this decision: “In the grotesque treatment of this case, where all parties seem to be seeking to discard [leurs] responsibilities, Olympique Lyonnais would like to point out that these serious events have had major repercussions on its entire professional team and its supporters. »
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As a reminder, the Lyon coach, Fabio Grosso, was hit in the head by the shattering of a window of the bus in which he was on. He received twelve stitches and was given thirty days of temporary incapacity for work. His deputy had also been hit, and six buses out of the ten in the convoy had been damaged.
2023-11-09 09:39:00
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