ASSE-Monaco incidents: what sanctions for the Saint-Etienne club?
The LFP Disciplinary Committee is meeting this Monday, April 25, to study the incidents that occurred this weekend during the match between ASSE and Monaco at Geoffroy-Guichard.
The paid meeting for the 34th day of L1 was interrupted twice, the second time for more than half an hour, while some ultras from Saint-Etienne reduce the use of smoke bombs and fireworks to celebrate 30 years of the Green Angels supporters group.
After sending the players back to the locker room, the referee ended up ordering the match to resume after a crisis unit including referees, authorities and clubs.
What penalties?
This new episode of outbursts of supporters, in a very turbulent L1 season in the stands, could be worth disciplinary sanctions in Saint-Étienne, whose ultras had already been talked about this season at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium when the kick-off of the match against Angers was postponed by one hour on October 22. These repeated clashes expose ASSE to heavy penalties at a time when the poorly ranked club is fighting to save its place in Ligue 1.
the January 12the commission had sanctioned ASSE of a match behind closed doors to Geoffroy-Guichard with suspended sentence for using pyrotechnic devices during a match against Nantes on December 22. And February 16the same commission had pronounced a sanction of grandstand closure for two suspended matches for similar incidents against Montpellier.
According to the decision adopted by the commission, Saint-Etienne (18th and current barrage operator) may have to play their next home game without an audience this season, scheduled for May 14 against Reimseven a possible ascent/descent dam against a Ligue 2 team.