A new case that is punctuating English football. On Saturday January 22, French defender Lucas Digne and his teammate Matty Cash were hit by a bottle thrown from the stands during the Everton-Aston Villa meeting, as part of the 23rd day of the Premier League. The facts occurred after the opening of the score by the Villans.
We were playing extra time in the first period when a corner shot in by Digne from the right flank of the attack was deflected by Emiliano Buendia to deceive Jordan Pickford and give the Villans the advantage (0-1, 45th + 2) .
Not every game a bottle smashes you on the head UTV! greatwin pic.twitter.com/BXfmRz9Ras
— Matty Cash (@mattycash622) January 22, 2022
As the Villa players gathered in the corner where the corner had been taken to congratulate each other, a plastic bottle hit the two players. These briefly went to the ground, before play resumed for a few seconds before the break.
Shortly after the match, the Everton club announced the arrest of a supporter “for throwing a projectile into the field”, stating that he had been identified by the security service in the stadium and thanks to remote surveillance images.
“Several projectiles were thrown after Aston Villa’s goal at the end of the first half, one of which apparently hit two opposing players. Investigations are continuing in conjunction with the police and the club will issue a stadium ban to all supporters. who will have thrown objects”, added the Toffees.
“It was crazy, she hit me in the head. It’s really not good that it happened, but we took the three points and we will only remember that”
Matty Cash, Aston Villa playerBT Sports
These facts came as Lucas Digne recently left Everton for Aston Villa. The Frenchman, who was playing his first match for the Birmingham club there, delivered an assist for the only goal of the game.
Two weeks ago, the Franco-British player of Crystal Palace, Michael Olise was also hit in the head by a plastic bottle thrown by supporters of Millwall (English D2), during an FA Cup match. . He had contented himself with kicking the projectile out of the field before resuming the match.
This incident is reminiscent of the sulphurous Lyon-Marseille, interrupted because of a projectile launched at Dimitri Payet, mid-November, in Ligue 1. The meeting, stopped after four minutes of play, will have to be replayed behind closed doors on OL ground, penalized with a penalty point in the standings.