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It is in a large Parisian hotel and not at the headquarters of the League (LFP) that the disciplinary committee of the LFP decided to hear the actors of the two clubs involved in the incidents of Nice - OM.
The decision to relocate the hearing was in all likelihood dictated by a desire of the LFP to debate in peace.
And was imposed by the number of speakers, some 25 members of OGC Nice and OM.
For the Nice club, Jean-Pierre Rivère, the president, and Julien Fournier, the director of football, will be present but also Christophe Galtier, the coach of the Aiglons.
By video, Dante, Jean-Clair Todibo and Justin Kluivert, concerned by the overflows, will also participate.
For its part, the Marseille delegation led by Pablo Longoria, the president, will include in particular the coach Jorge Sampaoli, Pablo Fernandez, the physical trainer author of a punch (already suspended), as well as Dimitri Payet.
🔵 OM is gaining strength in the Disciplinary Commission.
Jorge Sampaoli is keen to be there to defend his troops and bear witness to the feeling of fear and lack of security felt in Nice.
Payet also chose to be present to represent the players.
- RMC Sport (@RMCsport) September 8, 2021
In the evening, the disciplinary commission, after having heard and evaluated the arguments of each one, is supposed to rule on the fate of the interrupted part and to pronounce sanctions.
What will happen to the interrupted match?
Each of the two clubs claim that the victory and the three points belong to them.
Nice, which led 1-0 before the interruption in the 75th, highlights that OM made a mistake by not returning to the pitch when the prefectural authorities had given the green light to the resumption of the meeting.
Marseille believes that the three points go to him on the green carpet.
For all intents and purposes, the emissaries of OM will produce a document showing that the Sampaoli team scores 40% of its goals in the last quarter of an hour, the very one from which Nice-OM was amputated. ..
As for the hypothesis of replaying the game, it seems that the League is not in favor, according to the Team, so as not to create a precedent likely to recur in Ligue 1. The League, still according to the sports daily , would incline more towards a “freeze” of the match: neither winner nor loser, zero points distributed.
Whatever the outcome, one or the other club, or even both, will be entitled to challenge the decision before the Federation Appeal Commission (FFF).
What line of defense for each?
Nice says it is ready to assume its responsibilities concerning the throwing of bottles and the invasion of the field.
For the rest of the violence, the Gym intends to establish, with supporting images, that part of the responsibility falls to the players in the Marseille management.
For its part, OM has gathered in a file the elements tending to establish that the Nice kop is the only one at the origin of the slippages that led to the stoppage of the game.
According to these elements, 74 bottles, telephones or telephone batteries were thrown towards the field from the popular South tribune, even before the interruption.
What is Dimitri Payet's responsibility?
Hit in the back by a plastic bottle while trying to take a corner, Payet set fire to the powder by returning said bottle, then another, in the direction of the ultras from Nice.
Will the Marseille striker be penalized for his gesture?
To mitigate the wrongs of its player, OM will provide independent ballistic expertise, which certifies that the impact suffered by Payet is equivalent to a flashball shot delivered from 40 meters away.
On the other hand, the physical trainer of OM, Pablo Fernandez, already suspended as a precaution, will not cut to a sanction, which could prove to be very salty, for the punch given to a Nice supporter.
As well as any other person found responsible for violence during the investigation of the case.
At club level, there is little doubt that Nice, already sanctioned with a closed-door match against Bordeaux on a conservatory basis on August 28 (4-0), will see its Allianz Arena stadium more heavily penalized. The Popular South tribune has already suspended for the next three meetings by prefectural decision.