The sentence fell.
The disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP) met this Wednesday, at the end of the day, to decide the responsibilities of the two clubs, after the incidents during the match between Nice and Olympique de Marseille, on 22 last August, which had led to an interruption of the meeting.
The LFP has decided that the match will be replayed, and that OGC Nice will be penalized with a withdrawal of two points, one of which is suspended.
On the fate of the match, the LFP has decided that the match will be replayed, "on neutral ground", and behind closed doors, explained Sébastien Deneux, chairman of the LFP's disciplinary committee, at the end of the Commission. discipline.
With regard to Nice, two points, one of which is suspended, and three matches will have to be played behind closed doors, “including the one relocated”.
Individual sanctions have also been pronounced: Marseille players Alvaro Gonzales and Dimitri Payet respectively receive two games of suspension and one game suspended.
OM's physical trainer, Pablo Fernandez, who was seen hitting a Nice supporter, is suspended until June 2022.
Nice-OM was interrupted in the 75th minute, on August 22, after supporters from the Côte d'Azur managed to invade the pitch.
A few seconds earlier, Marseille player Dimitri Payet had returned to the audience a bottle of water that had been thrown at him by the Nice kop, as he was about to take a corner.
At the request of OM, the match had not resumed after more than an hour of waiting, violence and controversy.
Marseille and Nice players, staff members and supporters also came to blows.
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Nice-OM: violence on the ground after the invasion of supporters
The Professional Football League therefore had to decide the responsibilities of each club and determine sanctions. In the aftermath of the incidents, the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes had already announced, "without waiting for the sanctions that it is up to the LFP to decide", the closure of the Popular South stand of the Nice stadium for four matches.
At the dawn of this disciplinary commission, which was held in a large Parisian hotel, the two clubs were camping in their positions, neither wanting to take responsibility for the incidents. Nice said he was ready to assume his responsibilities concerning the throwing of bottles (by his supporters) and the invasion of the field (of his stadium), but no more. The OM, which gathered many pieces in a file that we were able to consult, estimated that only the Nice kop could be considered as responsible for the skids, 74 bottles, telephones and telephone batteries having been thrown in the direction of the field before the interruption, according to a club count.
