Nantes coach Antoine Kombouaré is angry over the decision of the LFP to impose a closed session for a meeting. The decision followed the match against Strasbourg during which 281 smoke bombs were set off in the Nantes stands.

“It’s nonsense,” he declared at a press conference. ‘I cannot imagine playing matches behind closed doors,’ assured the coach. Pierre Sage, the Lyon coach, also criticized this decision: ‘Football has no meaning if it is not played for someone and that someone usually, it's the public'