For the second time in the same week, the players of Paris Saint-Germain will therefore have to negotiate a major trip away without their most fervent supporters. While the Collectif Ultras Paris (CUP) had already boycotted the trip to Haifa, because of the security measures put in place for entry into Israeli territory, the League announced on Wednesday evening that these would be this time deprived of the trip to Lyon, this Sunday.
A disciplinary decision which comes following a “use of pyrotechnic devices” at Beaujoire, on September 3 during the trip from PSG to Nantes (0-3). Under a suspended sentence for the same offence, the PSG visitor’s stand was therefore closed by dismissal of the latter “for the next match played outside”, namely that against Olympique Lyonnais.
A presence of Parisian supporters in Lyon would have been, in any case, a surprise. In January, PSG supporters were banned from traveling to Lyon due to a “real and serious risk of clashes between supporters of the two clubs”, just weeks after the excesses that had punctuated the Coupe de France match. between Lyon and Paris FC. The day before the commission’s decision, a prefectural decree had already very strongly regulated the presence of Parisian supporters in Lyon, prohibiting them from accessing the city center and around the stadium from 8 a.m. to midnight on Sunday and forcing travel by bus for all supporters.