Bordeaux coach David Guion recognizes this: “I was afraid that the match would end. I obviously thought about Rodez. “Because less than three months after the famous scramble of the Ruthenian player Lucas Buades by one of their historic members, in the middle of a Ligue 2 match at the Matmut Atlantique, the Ultramarines were again talked about on Monday evening.
The Ligue 2 match between Ajaccio and the Girondins was indeed interrupted for almost an hour due to a fight in the stands between supporters of the two teams. Referee Gaël Angoula sent all the players back to the locker room after about ten minutes of play because in a stand at the François-Coty stadium, some Ajaccio supporters wanted to do battle with their rivals from Bordeaux.
A few days before the meeting, a prefectural decree had however been published in order to prohibit the movement of Bordeaux supporters to Corsica. Seats were ripped off and a security barrier flew from a stadium stand, according to footage from broadcaster beIN Sports. The Girondins supporters involved were evacuated by the police. Six of them were slightly injured, as well as two stewards, according to the prefecture. After exactly 55 minutes of interruption, the conditions were deemed to be within the standards for the resumption of play, and the match was resumed to end with a score of 0-0.
Tensions between Bordeaux groups last week against Concarneau
In a press release, the Bordeaux club “strongly condemned the non-compliance by an isolated group of (its) supporters with the prefectural decree prohibiting their presence at the François-Coty stadium in Ajaccio”. “The club is in close contact with the prefecture and the delegates of the League to allow their expulsion, their sanction, and welcomes the decision to resume the match”, continues the text, specifying that the Girondins “will subsequently take all measures necessary to sanction this inadmissible behavior which in no way reflects the culture of the Girondins supporters”.
A week earlier, the police had to intervene at Matmut Atlantique, on the sidelines of the Bordeaux-Concarneau match (1-0), due to the start of clashes between the Ultramarines and the North Gate, a new group. of Bordeaux supporters created at the end of last season and installed in the northern bend. The LFP Disciplinary Committee should in any case quickly take up these new incidents involving the Girondins de Bordeaux, who had suffered the withdrawal of a firm point for this season after the interrupted (and lost) match against Rodez.