OL challenges the closed session against Reims with the CNOSF

An evening that continues to make people talk. Olympique Lyonnais will challenge the decision of the Professional Football League (LFP) to play the Lyon-Reims match behind closed doors on Wednesday 1 December, said the president of the Rhone club Jean-Michel Aulas, in an interview with The team and published Tuesday. The Ligue 1 Lyon-Marseille meeting was stopped after a few minutes on November 21, following a bottle throw at OM player Dimitri Payet.

The club will exercise this appeal on Tuesday, November 30 afternoon, during a conciliation hearing before the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF). The sanction of the LFP was taken as a precaution, pending a final measure on December 8.

After four minutes of play, on November 21, the Lyon-Marseille match was stopped by the referee, after the Marseillais Dimitri Payet had received a bottle thrown from the north turn of the Groupama Stadium by a man since convicted by the courts.

In a press release published on Tuesday, the Rhone club again pleaded that it was a “individual and isolated act”, which cannot be compared according to him “to the vast majority of collective incidents” which have occurred in football stadiums since the start of the season. “It is imperative that a distinction be made between collective acts of violence and degradation, and isolated acts that no one can anticipate or prevent”, insisted the Olympique Lyonnais.