Dimitri Payet must undoubtedly regret his gesture. The Olympique de Marseille midfielder was suspended for three firm matches and two suspended on Wednesday by the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League (LFP), eleven days after slapping the assistant coach de Lens, Yannick Cahuzac, during the meeting between the two teams on May 6 (2-1 victory for Lens).
Yannick Cahuzac was sanctioned with a firm match and another suspended. During Lens-OM, a scuffle had started after a shot from Lensois Facundo Medina towards the Marseille bench, where Payet was in particular. In the melee, the 36-year-old playmaker slapped Franck Haise’s assistant, Yannick Cahuzac, who was sent off for his hostile behavior.
The sanction which hits the Marseille midfielder will take effect from midnight May 23. Dimitri Payet will thus be able to play the match in Lille on Saturday but will miss the last two days, against Brest on May 27 and in Ajaccio on June 3. The France international will also have to serve a one-game suspension next season.
An investigation opened after the broadcast of the images by Prime Video
The disciplinary committee had taken up the Payet file while the slap from Marseille had escaped the referee Clément Turpin and the video assistance. The gesture was then relayed by the broadcaster Prime Video.
Substitute since the arrival of Igor Tudor last summer, Payet resumed colors at the end of the season thanks to his remarkable entries against Auxerre then in Lens. The Croatian coach even started him last Sunday in the victory over Angers (3-1) at the Vélodrome; a meeting during which Dimitri Payet also scored a goal.
In addition, Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi and AC Ajaccio midfielder Thomas Mangani, excluded during the match between the two teams on May 13 (5-0), each received two fixed matches of suspension.
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