It is an explosive match concluded in the chaos which is examining the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP). The fate of Nice-OM, interrupted in the 75th minute on August 22 after the invasion of the lawn of the Allianz Riviera by Riviera supporters and the refusal of the Marseillais to resume the game thereafter, is on the menu of the proceeding this Wednesday at the end of the day in a hotel in central Paris. It will have to determine who should be sanctioned and how high and also the fate of a meeting that Nice led 1-0 before the premature stoppage.
In an attempt to tip the decision in its favor, the Marseille club will present a file, which we obtained but that the club did not wish to comment on, to convince the League commission of its right. First angle of attack: show to what extent, in his opinion, the Nice kop contributed to rot the context of the meeting even before the interruption. According to the Marseille club, 74 bottles, telephones or telephone batteries were thrown towards the field from the popular South tribune. The latter has since been closed for four games by the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes.
OM also commissioned a study by a Polytech Marseille academic to estimate the power of the impact of the water bottle that was thrown in the back of Dimitri Payet before he took a corner in the 75th minute. If "the data should be taken with caution" due to "little information available in the video", the author of the report estimates that the 500 gram projectile was thrown at a height of 10 meters and reached a speed of 10 m / s.
He concludes that the kinetic energy of the object which struck the Marseille playmaker is 74.05 joules, which is equivalent to "the vertical fall of a petanque ball 5.2 meters high".
And is greater than a 40-meter flash ball shot, which has an estimated kinetic energy of 60 joules.
After falling, Dimitri Payet returned the bottle to the public, "which ignited the powder" according to the president of OGC Nice, Jean-Pierre Rivère.
Estimation of the trajectory of the bottle which struck Dimitri Payet
The document makes the same calculation for another bottle, thrown in the direction of defender Alvaro Gonzalez from a height of 6 meters and which the Spaniard avoided.
There, the kinetic energy of the object is estimated at 54.5 joules, slightly below that of the same flash ball shot at 40 meters.
Another axis of attack of the Marseille clan, that on the sporting part.
If Nice led 1-0 during the interruption of the game, OM will provide a statistical analysis of the temporal distribution of the goals scored in Ligue 1 by players from Bouches-du-Rhône since the arrival of the Argentinian on the sidelines in March to convince the disciplinary committee that the fate of the meeting was far from sealed.
"Deleting this period would mean dividing the club's performance by two"
The Marseille club's graph shows that Dimitri Payet and his partners scored eleven times beyond the 74th minute of the game, just before the end of the match in Nice, which represents 39% of OM's achievements.
“At the end of the 2020/2021 season, the club gained 10 additional points thanks to goals scored from the 74th and 3 points during the 2021/2022 season”, highlights the text.
Breakdown of goals scored by OM in Ligue 1 under the direction of Jorge Sampaoli
"Jorge Sampaoli has played 14 full Ligue 1 games with Olympique de Marseille and the late goals have brought him a total of 13 additional points," the document continues. The last quarter of an hour is thus particularly decisive because although it represents only 1/6 of a match in terms of duration, it contributes to half of the team's performance. Deleting this period would mean dividing the club's performance in half. »A sufficient argument to convince the League to grant the three points of victory to OM? Verdict expected in the evening.