The decision was awaited by the 41,000 ticket holders, it fell on Saturday. The meeting between AS Saint-Etienne and Olympique de Marseille, counting for the 30th day of Ligue 1 and initially scheduled for Saturday, is postponed. The Professional Football League (LFP) announced it after heavy snowfall in Forez, without however giving a new date.
“Given the difficulties of access to the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium, the LFP has decided, in agreement with all the stakeholders in the organization of the meeting, to postpone #ASSEOM, scheduled for this Saturday, until tomorrow Sunday April 3”, have indicated the Greens”. According to concordant sources the meeting will take place at 3 p.m., even if this information is not yet confirmed.
This 114th confrontation between the two clubs was to represent the highest attendance of the season for the Greens. “I arrived this morning (Friday), and the hairs came to me, the tears came to me because I saw the gardeners clearing part of the plain of snow to allow training to be held at 5 p.m., said during the day coach Pascal Dupraz during his press briefing.
“I also saw the educators of the training center with shovels and brooms clearing snow, continued the Stéphane coach. So what did I do? I called my technical staff for whom I am responsible and I told them, there is something wrong: the center’s educators are on our lawn and we are not there. To fix this mistake, at 12:15 all my staff was there to allow the staff of the training center to go to lunch. »
Despite this united momentum, the weather decided to renew its snowfall on Friday evening and then Saturday morning. We will therefore have to wait until Sunday to witness this clash of extremes between ASSE, 18th in Ligue 1, and OM, dolphin of the Parisian leaders.