Montpellier, it's over

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By: Manu Tournoux

It was certainly the last chance match for the MHSC. Opposed this Sunday on behalf of the 26th L1 lifting to Saint-Etienne, a direct competitor in the fight for maintenance and while the barragist position moves away day after day, Montpellier could not maintain his hopes of maintenance. Led 0-2 at home at the time of play, the Pailladins were betrayed by their own audience.

In the gallery of the Butte Paillade, this ultras, a voluntary fire broke out, and clashes with the police broke out. A deplorable show that prompted the referee Mr. Lettexier to suspend the debates, until they stop them permanently 20 minutes later after consulting the officials of the Professional Football League and local authorities.

Gasset announces the end

In addition to the probable validation by the LFP competition committee of the result observed at the time of the end of the meeting-namely a 0-2 defeat of the Héraultais-the MHSC is exposed to a strong fine, in camera-perhaps even until the end of the season for the tribune of incriminated-or even to a withdrawal of point (s) as was the case in the autumn 2023 Clermont on a firecracker launched towards the Auvergne Mory Diaw goalkeeper.

Anyway, the Montpellier red lantern, eight days from the end of the championship, seems in a dead end. “”
I have landed that it ends up in sausage water, especially in the match where you could be on survival. Play it like that, while the supporters received us normally … I asked them to wait, to leave us that chance. We couldn't enter itdixit the coach of the club Jean-Louis Gasset, hot, in front of the press. The supporters are against us. There is nothing going, but you had to expect it. I assume. (…)
I may be a football has been. I hurt and I am ashamed. It's over. »»