DIRECT. Lyon-Marseille: Dimitri Payet receives a bottle thrown from the stands, the match still interrupted – Franceinfo

The OL-OM shock, closing the 14th day of Ligue 1, will it come to an end? Nothing is less certain after the interruption of the match in the 3rd minutes after Dimitri Payet, who came to take a corner, was hit in the head by a bottle of water thrown from the stands. Chronological reminder of the facts:

A stormy atmosphere

From the start of this Olympico, the tension was palpable: many throwing bottles had punctuated the first seconds and the stadium announcer had to make the first appeals for calm, at the request of the referee.

Dimitri Payet hit in the head

Coming to take a corner for OM, in the 3rd minute, after having waited a long time for the hail of objects to stop, the Marseille midfielder was hit hard in the head by a bottle thrown from the stands. Payet collapses instantly. He was then treated by the Marseille staff before the match was, logically, suspended.

Meeting of crisis and uncertainty

Marseille and Lyon leaders meet, in consultation with the refereeing body, to see if the match should resume. Almost an hour after the kick-off of the match, no decision has yet been formalized.

Worrisome precedents

This incident is already the 8th of the season of this kind in Ligue 1. Dimitri Payet, already him, had been the victim of a bottle throw in Nice at the very beginning of the season, in August. The match was then interrupted a quarter of an hour from the end, before being replayed behind closed doors and on neutral ground, in Troyes on October 27 (1-1). The Riviera club had been sanctioned with a withdrawal of two points in the standings, one of which was suspended.