Lyon-Marseille: Jean-Michel Aulas deplores “the violent reaction from Marseille”, which led to a – Franceinfo

There will have been no match between Lyonnais and Marseillais on Sunday, November 21. The meeting was interrupted after a few minutes of play when a bottle thrown from the stands hit Dimitri Payet in the head as he was about to take a corner. Between the incident and the final decision to stop the match, more than two hours passed. Asked at the microphone of the broadcaster Prime Video, the president of Olympique Lyonnais Jean-Michel Aulas delivered his version explaining this incomprehensible expectation.

He criticized in particular the reversal of the situation and the decision to definitively interrupt the match, while the resumption had however been announced shortly after 10 p.m. “OL’s security services reacted immediately, the individual was arrested, we had imagined that the match could resume, and the referee had decided to resume”, he revealed. “And then when he came back to announce it to the players, there was a violent reaction from Marseille. Ruddy Buquet asked to see the prefect again, and reversed the decision, it’s incomprehensible.”

President @JM_Aulas : “There have been a number of procrastination. Regarding the incident, it is a bottle thrown at Dimitri Payet. We send him our apologies. The perpetrator was immediately caught. isolated act. ” pic.twitter.com/kJCADIbDGm

– Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) November 21, 2021

For the Lyon president, the meeting could resume without a security problem: “As the author acted independently, that he was arrested, it was thought that we could react and resume […] Safety was completely assured. ” However, sf the author was arrested, he was not the only one to throw objects towards Dimitri Payet, since the n ° 10 had waited long seconds before being able to shoot the corner facing the hail of projectiles.

If he approves the decision to suspend the game at the time of the incidents, to “protect the players”, Jean-Michel Aulas regrets that we dangled the specter of a recovery from his players and his audience: “The referee made his decision with his soul and conscience. It is not for us to judge whether it is good or bad.”