After the decision of the LFP, Montpellier resigned

Big blow to morale. Montpellier posted a certain fatalism on Friday, two days after the verdict of the LFP disciplinary committee which validated its defeat against Saint-Etienne (2-0) in a interrupted meeting in the 57th minute.

“I miss something. At 11 against ten, with 35 minutes of play, you never know and you will never know ”first regretted at a press conference, coach Jean-Louis Gasset. “I can hear any decision of the disciplinary committee. She had four possibilities, she made the choice to endorse the result ”he then added.

On March 16, in a meeting between the relegated Montpellier and Saint-Etienne counting for the 26th day of Ligue 1, the international referee François Letexier had interrupted the match in the 57th minute following a start of fire in the stands and a jet of smoke. Shortly after, he returned the players to the locker room before definitively stopped the match.

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The experienced midfielder Jordan Ferri, for his part, shared a certain misunderstanding, in particular with regard to the decision taken by the LFP a year and a half earlier, after the Montpellier-Clermont match. “Last season, we were told to replay a match that we led (4-2) two minutes from the end. We found ourselves to replay the match on camera (with a penalty point, editor's note) ”was thus surprised the old Lyonnais.

During these previous incidents, the match had been interrupted following a smoke jet near the goalkeeper of Clermont Mory Diaw, evacuated on a stretcher. “We can only blame ourselves with us. But that is added to a heavy mental season ”said Ferri again.

With nine points behind the Barragist Le Havre, whom he receives Sunday at the Mosson, Montpellier, red Ligue 1 lantern, is annoying posture in the maintenance race. “It's practically done, but not mathematically done. If there is one percent, we play this percent ”assured Jean-Louis Gasset.