After a first stop at the end of the first period, the match was arrested in the 66th minute of play and the two teams returned to the locker room, before restarting after half an hour of interruption.
Le Monde with AFP
The match between Saint-Etienne and AS Monaco (ASM), counting for the 34 e day of Ligue 1, Saturday April 23, resumed after half an hour of interruption, At the end of a crisis unit including referees, authorities and clubs.
“The decision which was taken in agreement obviously with the public authorities, the two clubs and us for the sports part, is to resume the meeting”, interrupted while Monaco led 3-1, said the Bastien referee Dechepy during a short speech to the press. The match, started at 7 p.m., resumed at 9 p.m.
This new episode of supporters of supporters, in a very agitated Ligue 1 season in the stands, could be worth disciplinary sanctions in Saint-Etienne, whose ultras had already been talked about this season at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium.
Saturday, many smoke bombs were lit in the stands for the 30 e anniversary of the ultra group of the Green Angels, in the South Kop, and some fell on the lawn, pushing the referee to interrupt the match. The meeting, counting for the 34
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This season, supporters of the Stéphanois club had already been talked about when the start of the match against Angers had been delayed by one hour on October 22. Incidents had broken out at the time of the pre-match protocol, several ultra-Stéphanois having entered the lawn and having sent rockets and other smoke bombs and destroying the nets of the goals, which had to be taken up in haste.
Pending the meeting of the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP), these repeated clashes exhibit ASSE in heavy sanctions at the time when the club, poorly classified, fights to save its Place in Ligue 1.
Similar incidents had occurred in Ligue 2 on Friday in Nancy, where the match against Quevilly-Rouen was definitively arrested at 3-0 for the Norman club, after jets of smoke bombs of Protestant supporters against Nancy relegation. The Disciplinary Commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) must meet in an emergency on Monday about the match between Nancy and Quevilly.
In Ligue 1, the 2021-2022 season was enamelled by several incidents, such as water bottle jets during Montpellier-Marseille and Lyon-Marseille (on Dimitri Payet), where the match had been arrested, or Another general fight with invasion of the field in Nice, always facing OM.
A field invasion had also disrupted the northern derby between Lille and Lens (1-0), in September.