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At the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium,
The general public met Sunday with a certain Noël mannino. In a Ligue 1 season under the sign of entertainment (tragicomic), TV rights crisis in mind, the delegate of the 126th derby made a remarkable minute in the Geoffroy-Guichard press room. At that time, around 10 p.m., the 40,372 Stéphanois supporters present die of wanting to see this ASS-OL (then at 1-0) resume. In total, this regional shock had to cross a 42 -minute interruption, the assistant referee Mehdi Rahmouni who received on the skull a coin launched by a spectator at the end of the first period.
This is where Christmas Mannino enters the scene, with a punchline involuntary that will revel in the hundreds of subscribers to the social network X throughout the evening: “Mehdi Rahmouni decided to return to the locker room because he was a little dizzy. We brought in a doctor to monitor him. He is not injured. He took a Doliprane, and after a few minutes of rest, he decided that he could resume the game. ”
OL players targeted during the warm -up
This miracle “doliprane” experienced a funny popular success, and that was not too much to relax an event that has become heavy, between the injury of Corentin Tolisso strangely managed by François Letexier and the Var (23rd), and especially this scandalous incident of the 44th minute of play. The Brazilian side of OL Vinicius Abner is then See a piece in slow motion (which was probably intended for him) hit the head of a Mehdi Rahmouni in shock.
“During the warm -up, coins had already been thrown on our players,” said President of Lyon John Textor. An additional element of context which gave us little hope of seeing this flagship meeting of the 30th day of Ligue 1 resume, in order to make it a new strong symbolic example to protect players, staff, leaders and therefore referees. The three most famous previous comparable comparables in our French championship thus have a common point:
- Strasbourg-Metz in 2000: Assistant referee Nelly Viennot is targeted by a firecracker jet.
- Metz-Osc in 2016: It is this time the Lyonnais goalkeeper Anthony Lopes who receives a firecracker near him and collapses.
- Olympic EN 2021: Dimitri Payet collapses after being hit by a bottle of water launched by a Lyon supporter.
With each time a match arrested at the time of the incident and replayed in camera, with two -point bonus withdrawn from Metz in 2016 and one point to the Lyonnais in 2021. We must add to this the rule clearly defined by the government in December 2021, following the Payet episode: a Ligue 1 or Ligue 2 game will be “systematically and definitively interrupted” when a player Projectile launched from the stands.
“It didn't affect the match”
OK, so as much to say that the 45th minute of this derby had no chance of arriving, especially in view of the endless expectation in a full and more than boiling stadium from the goal of Lucas Stassin. But a dramatic stroke: the stupid gesture of an individual a priori isolated, and ready to sink his club fighting for his maintenance, was not fatal to this assess.
Because the first interested party, Mehdi Rahmouni, agreed to resume the match, unlike Nelly Viennot, Anthony Lopes, Dimitri Payet, and even in a more recent case, although different Fabio Grosso. Although led by the scoring in a crucial and outside match in a hostile stadium, players and Lyon leaders did not try to upset this recovery of the match.
“We knew it was going to be tense,” sums up the technical director of OL Matthieu Louis-Jean. I do not know whether to resume or not, but it is still quite serious to see a referee take a room on the head in the middle of a match. His American boss John Textor continues.
« This is a difficult situation that has previous ones leading to a suspension of the match. It is perhaps the referee's second error (after the non-express of Lucas Stassin), which was very comfortable at the idea of taking over the match. It was not the biggest problem of the evening but I was surprised at the way it was managed. I do not complain, especially since we played better after the interruption, and that it did not affect the match. »
“What happened is really unacceptable”
There was (fortunately) no longer the slightest notorious incident in the cauldron during this match as exciting as it is bizarre, with its 42 -minute gap. “It made us two stops chained with half-time and it was really not easy,” confirms the Lyon goalkeeper Rémy Descamps.
The coach of the Greens Eirik Horneland was more severe as to this episode: “This moment was very unpleasant to live. We must be able to play these football meetings without any interruption. Players and referees must feel safe on the field, and what happened is really unacceptable. ”
The Norwegian ASSE coach did not look at the serious possible consequences behind the scenes. Because if his club gives the impression of having been varnished in his unexpected success (2-1) Sunday, between the Stassingate and this coin thrown on the referee, it could turn otherwise in the coming days before the disciplinary committee. Including with a removal of points which could be fatal to Sainté (17th), returned up to the Barragist Havrais (16th)?
ASSE files a complaint this Monday
In any case, the Stéphanois club has taken the problem with the body, by communicating his approach During the night from Sunday to Monday: “AS Saint-Etienne immediately set up all means to allow the facts to be established. This investigation made it possible to quickly identify the alleged perpetrator of a projectile jet. Based on the information transmitted by the club and in collaboration with the authorities, the individual was arrested at the end of the stadium. He is now in police custody. AS Saint-Étienne will file a complaint against it this Monday.
Our file on ASSE
Before insisting: “The club will act with the greatest firmness, taking the most severe sanctions for its part, so that this isolated act does not remain unpunished. AS Saint-Etienne recalls its total commitment in the fight against any form of violence and will continue to act resolutely with all stakeholders to allow to take the most effective measures against the authors of this type of facts. ” Will this be enough to avoid the collective sanctions that so often surround French football?
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