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Ligue 2: suspicion of biting and racist insults at the end of Valenciennes-Sochaux

2020-10-18T16:52:06.663Z


A Valenciennes player claims to have been bitten by a Sochalien who, for his part, claims to have been targeted by repeated racist insults.


It is a bickering as it occurs in all football matches, but the disciplinary committee of the League will get involved and the two protagonists risk big.

Saturday, after the match of the 7th day of L2 between Sochaux and Valenciennes (0-0), a scuffle broke out on the lawn between the players of the two teams.

On the images of BeIN Sports, we see the Sochalien Ousseynou Thioune approaching very close to the Valenciennes goalkeeper Jérôme Prior, who reacts suddenly to push him away.

In the evening, the Valencian goalkeeper accused his opponent of having bitten him.

VAFC coach Olivier Guégan spoke of the incident at a press conference: “Jérôme Prior has a bite on the corner of his cheek”.

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Sunday morning, the president of Valenciennes, Eddy Zdziech, supported the version of his goalkeeper.

“It's really unfortunate.

Do not minimize the incident or deny it.

Jérôme, with whom I spoke, really has a big bite on his cheek, he was bleeding ”.

“This kind of behavior is serious,” continued the Valencian president.

We really have to eradicate them, it has nothing to do on a football field.

I trust the referees and the disciplinary committee to take the necessary decisions ”.

Eddy Zdziech announced that the club would "decide on the follow-up to be given to this sad affair" and "defend his player".

"He told me 'get out, dirty black'"

Sochaux side, Ousseynou Thioune disputes the facts and ensures that the goal of Valenciennes sent him racist insults.

"In the second half, when I came to steal the ball from him very close to the goal, he started talking to me again and said to me 'get rid of you dirty black'", said Sunday the Senegalese midfielder of 26 years in the local daily newspaper L'Est Républicain.

“After the game, I came to tell him that it was not professional to say these words.

It was there again that he repeated to me "break yourself, dirty black".

On this second time, so yes, I said "we go out and we will explain ourselves on that".

I put my head against his cheek, it's true.

And, yes, I was pissed off, I wanted to give it a head butt.

But when I thought about it, I pulled my head back.

There was no bite… ”, assured the FC Sochaux player.

“When you watch the video closely, I had my hands inside my pockets.

The heads are close.

Afterwards, we both see an arm movement and I left.

Look, if I had bitten him he would have had a different reaction than that.

For me, he made this mark himself, which I saw later in the pictures.

A bite would have left traces of teeth.

Here, this is not the case.

To people who say I bit, I tell them: "show me the pictures of this".

They do not exist, ”concluded the Sochaux player.

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If the facts are proven on both sides, the two players risk being heavily sanctioned by the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP).

Source: leparis

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