The disciplinary commission began, with the Lyonnais, without the Marseillais

With the Lyonnais therefore, but without the Marseillais, not summoned. As explained by RMC Sport, the disciplinary committee considers that OM is not implicated in the excesses and therefore does not have to defend itself.

OL’s director general of football arrived a few minutes before the start of the disciplinary committee.

The meeting scheduled for 4:30 p.m. is approaching. The Technical Director of Arbitration Pascal Garibian has arrived at the scene where the sanctions will be decided.

These are the images that OM sent in their file to the LFP. Those which prove, according to the Marseille club, that the bottle throwing in the face of Dimitri Payet was not an “isolated act”, as explained by OL since the beginning of the affair.

Marseille counted at least eight throws of projectiles and spotted another bottle thrown in the direction of the famous corner point.

After its meeting at 4.30 p.m., the disciplinary committee will announce the sanctions taken against OL.

A decision that will set a precedent for future incidents of this type in the stadiums.

The LFP has proven since the start of the season that it can have recourse to very different sanctions: fine, closing of stands, closed door, suspended point withdrawal, effective point withdrawal, or even a game lost on the green carpet.

So, what sanctions await OL? Which version of the evening will the League retain? And will the Rhone club pay for all the incidents at the start of the season?

These three questions are answered in this article.

After the incidents which had taken place at the Allianz Riviera during the match between OGC Nice and OM, the League had decided to replay the match on neutral ground near Troyes.

The LFP could do the same if it decides not to lose OL on the green carpet. OM President Pablo Longoria has warned of the consequences of such a decision.

To find his voice, it’s here.

In opposition to the arbitrator’s report is the one jointly drafted by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes prefecture and the Departmental Directorate of Public Security.

The text denounces the referee’s hesitations on his decision to end the match and ultimately blames the League and its representatives present that evening at Groupama Stadium.

The content of the report can be read here.

Regardless of the views of OL and OM, Ruddy Buquet therefore wrote his report on the night of the match, after the events. A report that RMC Sport has therefore obtained and in which the referee explains almost minute by minute what took place on November 21 at Groupama Stadium.

All four pages written by Mr. Buquet will be invaluable for the disciplinary committee of the LFP in order to take sanctions. The fact that OL decided, without notifying the referee and while the referee was opposed to it, to announce a resumption of the match in Groupama Stadium, could also work against Lyon.

Important passages from Ruddy Buquet’s report can be found here.

The president of Lyon, in fact, has been in the heart of the cyclone for two days. On Sunday, RMC Sport accessed the report written by Ruddy Buquet, referee of the match on November 21, the night of the match.

In it, the man with the whistle describes a very agitated Jorge Sampaoli and a Jean-Michel Aulas who would have uttered threats to him. An element that could play against OL this afternoon.

To see the details of Mr. Buquet’s statements in his report, it’s here.

In view of the context, OL may be worried. After many supporters overflows in Ligue 1 stadiums since the start of the season, the LFP will want to crack down. All the more so as several political figures have taken up the subject and are asking for clear answers.

Jean-Michel Aulas, president of OL, wants at all costs to avoid “paying” for all these successive incidents. The Rhone leader has been making proposals for several weeks to find solutions to the problem.

His latest idea, namely to replace an affected player, is detailed here.

This is the main argument of OL’s defense since the facts happened. Lyon and its leaders defend the thesis of an “isolated act”, namely that a single individual tried to target Dimitri Payet with a projectile.

OM, in its file, attacks this idea head-on, saying that other projectiles were also launched on the lawn before and after Payet was hit. Marseille’s objective is for Lyon to have a lost match following the decisions of the League.

To find all the arguments presented by OM in its file, this is where it happens.

The League did not see fit to invite the Marseille leaders to the meeting of the disciplinary committee. Only the Lyonnais will be present in Paris to defend their point of view.

An astonishing decision for OM, which did send a file to the LFP to question the defense of OL, but which will therefore not be able to defend it orally.

The opportunity to look at the different versions of each other during this evening of November 21.

It is a Wednesday that will be a milestone in recent OL history. The Rhone club is feverishly awaiting the decisions of the disciplinary committee of the LFP and could be subject to significant sanctions.

This morning, it was more the future of Juninho that was on everyone’s lips in Lyon. OL’s sporting director confirmed to our colleagues from Progress that he would be leaving his post in the coming weeks, even before the end of the season.

Quick return to the events of November 21: the shock of the Olympics was interrupted in the 4th minute of play after Dimitri Payet was hit by a bottle throw from the Lyon supporters’ stand.

After two long hours of discussions behind the scenes at Groupama Stadium, the meeting was definitively interrupted. The 55,000 people present at the stadium that evening had finally seen less than two minutes of actual play.

Two and a half weeks after the incidents of November 21, which caused the interruption of the shock of the 14th day between Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique de Marseille, Lyon will know.

The disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League must meet from 4.30 p.m. to consider the sanctions to be imposed on OL. The decisions of the LFP should be rendered in the late afternoon.