Lost match for Lyon?
Match to replay neutral ground and behind closed doors?
Withdrawal from a firm point or suspended?
Additional matches behind closed doors?
Fines?
The fate of the “Olympico” between Lyon and Marseille, which was quickly stopped after a plastic bottle was thrown at Dimitri Payet at Groupama Stadium on November 21, will be decided this Wednesday evening.
Obviously, OL are risking a lot.
While the Lyon club has already been penalized with a closed-door match pending the final sanction, the author of the throwing of the bottle was sentenced by the courts to six months in prison suspended for immediate appearance .
Slippages that accumulate
The members of the disciplinary committee will have to disregard the general context and the accumulation of slippages during Montpellier-OM, Nice-OM, Lens-Lille, Angers-OM, and consider calmly the following questions: in place by OL was it sufficient or lacking?
And depending on the response, what sanction, and at what level, should it be issued?
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If, as it will not fail to do, the commission chaired by Sébastien Deneux refers to recent precedents, it could be tempted to sanction OL more or less at the same level as Nice a month ago, for the excesses against at OM, August 22: the match to be replayed on neutral ground and behind closed doors, a withdrawal of two points, one of which is suspended, as well as a closed session for two matches.
Within the two Olympics, each has refined their defense and attack for three weeks.
This Wednesday, each club will come to defend its version of the facts, a lawyer in support of the OM side, but without Payet who has chosen not to participate in the hearing, neither physically nor by videoconference.
"We will ask for the three points" of victory, explained the management of OM, which considers that "it is a first and that it is the most serious fact ever in France".
“An isolated act” according to Lyon
On the OL side, the thesis of “the individual and isolated act”, that “no one can anticipate or prevent”, will be defended. "It is necessary to be of obvious bad faith to compare the events (
with those
) of Nice-Marseille, Montpellier-Marseille or Lens-Lille", that is to say encounters marked by "invasion of land" or "fights", a already advanced Jean-Michel Aulas.
The commission could be ill-disposed towards the Lyon president, reading the pressure exerted by the latter on the evening of November 21, brought to the arbitration report of Ruddy Buquet. "I am unfortunately part of the ExCom (
the Executive Committee of the FFF
) and it will not stop there", Aulas would have launched to the referee, according to the referee report, after having failed to convince the referee to resume the part. Comment that the president describes as "taken out of context".
In L'Équipe, OM President Pablo Longoria said on Tuesday that he wanted "to have a clear regulation in which the sanctions that apply are enacted for each type of incident."
This would prevent everyone from asking questions every time.
(…) What is not responsible is to seek to preserve each of our individual interests when it is a collective problem.
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