The evening had started so well at the Allianz-Riviera.
And she ended so badly.
While the atmosphere seemed festive in the lair of OGC Nice, it lapsed into pathos in a matter of minutes.
While the Aiglons led in the score (1-0), the meeting turned into the unreal around the 75th minute.
Everything changed when OM player Dimitri Payet returned one of the many plastic bottles he received every time he went for a corner to the Nice supporters' stand.
The spirits were then heated and part of the Ultras of the OGCN then invaded the lawn, coming to the hands with opposing players.
Jean-Pierre Rivère, president of Nice, wanted to resume
An absolutely grotesque scene which led the referee to send the actors back to the locker room.
Shocked, the OM players then took refuge in their locker rooms, some of them physically affected.
After about thirty minutes of waiting, the authorities then indicated that the match had to resume.
Jean-Pierre Rivère, the president of OGC Nice, echoed this at the microphone of Prime Video: “The decision was taken by the authorities to resume this match, afterwards, it is the decision of OM not to not want to come back.
It has to do with them.
(...) I have no doubts about the good behavior of the supporters now.
There are responsibilities on each side ”.
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Except that OM never wanted to resume this part in this sulphurous and electric context. As required by the rules, the referees still called on both teams and returned to the pitch to kick off the restart. Faced with the refusal of the Marseille players to resume, the meeting was then interrupted again, this time definitively for this Sunday evening. Two weeks ago, the meeting between Montpellier and Marseille had already been suspended, before resuming later. This time around, the supporters have gone too far.
