2023-10-14 19:55:28
While the second act had just started, the meeting between PSG and Reims, played at the Léo-Lagrange stadium in Poissy, was interrupted this Saturday after fireworks were fired from outside the stadium onto the pitch. . The players immediately returned to the locker room to get to safety. Two firecrackers had already been fired on the pitch in the first period, without the referee interrupting the match. The score was 0-0 when the game was stopped.
After 40 minutes of waiting, and despite the desire of Amandine Miquel, coach of Stade de Reims, to resume the match, it will not continue this Saturday evening.
The fireworks, fired from the surrounding buildings, fell right in the middle of a stand filled with families, including children, and also reached a mounted structure on which the commentators and cameramen of the match were located. PSG goalkeeper Katarzyna Kiedrzynek, the player closest to the shots, hit her neck but did not appear to have been hit.
Surreal scene at the resumption of #PSGSDR ????
Hundreds of firecrackers landed on the pitch, forcing the referee to interrupt the match and send the players to the locker room ❌#D1 pic.twitter.com/RTCxuL0xlI
— CANAL+ Foot (@CanalplusFoot) October 14, 2023
At the microphone of Canal + Foot, Reynald Pedros immediately denounced “a scandal”. The encrypted channel indicated that PSG would not communicate “before 15 minutes” around 7:20 p.m., which the Ile-de-France club has still not done. The Poissy pitch was chosen as a fallback solution because the pitch at the George-Lefèvre stadium at the Loges camp in Saint-Germain-en-Laye was impassable due to a fungus on the pitch.
“The players are doing very well. We hope to be able to resume as soon as law enforcement has identified the problem. There is a desire to resume (the match) on the Reims side, but to stop it on the PSG side,” said the Reims technician, still for Canal+, a few moments after the incidents.
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