Olympique Lyonnais president Jean-Michel Aulas suggested that a player could be replaced by an extra substitute so that matches are not abandoned amid a debate on crowd violence in Ligue 1 stadiums. The French League LFP is set to rule on the Lyon v Olympique de Marseille game that was abandoned two weeks ago after Marseille's Dimitri Payet was hit by a bottle thrown from the stands with Aulas criticising the referee's decision to call off the match. His Marseille counterpart Pablo Longoria said he was against the game, which was stopped after five minutes, being replayed.
In the world of European soccer, the reaction for 90 per cent of the people is to ask for a game lost to the team whose fans have misbehaved," Longoria told sports daily L'Equipe on Tuesday.
Nice were docked two points, one of them suspended, after serious incidents during their game in August against Marseille, whose players clashed with home fans who pelted them with missiles and stormed onto the pitch. The northern derby between RC Lens and Lille was hit by crowd problems in September, with the start of the second half delayed after rival fans threw objects at each other before people ran onto the pitch, prompting riot police and stewards to intervene.
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