Match deserted after Bastia fans conflict Lyon players
Bastia’s supporters invade a representation to try to quarrel with Lyon’s Portuguese goalkeeper Anthony Lopes (in red) and players during their comfortable adult before to a French L1 Football compare between Bastia (SCB) and Lyon (OL) on Apr 16, 2017, during a Armand Cesari stadium, in Bastia, on a French Mediterranean island of Corsica.
PHOTO: AFP
BASTIA, FRANCE: Bastia’s home diversion with Lyon in French Ligue 1 was deserted during half time after supporters of a Corsican side twice invaded a representation and pounded a visiting players on Sunday.
A hardcore territory of home fans during Bastia’s Armand Cesari track targeted Lyon’s players as they warmed adult before a game, causing it to be behind by some-more than 50 minutes, and afterwards again as a dual sides went in for a mangle with a measure during 0-0.
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“We contingency stop, we contingency stop, they strike a players,” Lyon manager Bruno Genesio told bar boss Jean-Michel Aulas in a corridors of a stadium. “We’re not going to war.”
Bottom-of-the-table Bastia are expected to have points deducted for a latest difficulty involving their supporters.
Bastia were punished in Feb over extremist abuse destined during Nice striker Mario Balotelli while a group train had a windows smashed.
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“Following a new occurrence during a finish of a initial period, a LFP motionless to definitively stop a diversion between Bastia and Lyon,” a French veteran football joining (LFP) pronounced in a statement.
In a initial incident, Lyon players fled to a sauce bedrooms and a 1500 GMT kick-off was hence behind as captains and officials from a dual teams and joining officials hold talks over either a diversion should go ahead.
Lyon’s players had been finishing their pre-game warm-up when about 50 Bastia fans — many of them dressed in black — pounded them, an AFP contributor during a stage said.
The difficulty — a second time in 4 days that Lyon have been held adult in football assault — saw former Manchester United winger Memphis Depay reportedly among a Lyon players confronted by Bastia fans in nauseous scenes.
Stewards and confidence staff rushed to meddle and for a few mins there was disharmony and scuffles until a personification aspect was privileged and a Lyon players took retreat behind a steel embankment in a tunnel.
Lyon primarily refused to leave a changing bedrooms again, though eventually did so to comfortable adult for a second time and a diversion kicked off shortly after with stewards lined adult on a corner of a pitch.
However they were unable to forestall some-more disturbances during a half-time whistle, triggered by a fight between a Bastia central and Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes, who had to be calm by confidence group and seemed to be a arch aim of a Bastia mob.
Lyon’s players huddled in a sauce room and after left a track in their group train after demonstration military diluted about 100 watchful Bastia fans massed during a gates by banishment rip gas.
Lyon star striker Alexandre Lacazette, who was not playing, tweeted
Pfffff honteux !!!
Nimporte quoi !!!!— Alexandre Lacazette (@LacazetteAlex) April 16, 2017
The French league’s disciplinary elect is certain to strike Bastia tough after it docked them one indicate — dangling — and systematic a bar to tighten a East Stand for 3 games over a gorilla chants by some of a fans during Balotelli.
Nathalie Boy de la Tour, boss of a LFP, told AFP: “We bewail that Bastia is giving a terrible picture of a football, it hurts a picture of veteran football, that does not merit this.”
On Thursday, fans streamed onto a representation in Lyon’s Europa League home strife with Besiktas and a start of a quarter-final initial leg was behind by 45 mins as officials attempted to transparent their Parc OL personification area of fans.
Home supporters poured onto a representation as they attempted to strengthen themselves from firecrackers and other objects raining down from a stands above.
On a representation elsewhere in France, Marseille stayed on march for a Europa League mark with a 4-0 win over St Etienne who have not won during a Stade Velodrome given 1979.
Florian Thauvin scored twice, Bafetimbi Gomis took his joining total to 17 goals while Dimitri Payet combined a fourth in time combined on.
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