The fate of Bordeaux, Rodez, Metz and Annecy: The crucial verdict for Ligue 2 promotions and relegations

The Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League must decide on Monday the fate of the Bordeaux-Rodez meeting, match of the last day of Ligue 2 stopped after the striker had been hit by an ultra from Bordeaux. Match replay or three points on green carpet? The decision will also impact Annecy.

The fates of Bordeaux, Rodez, Metz and Annecy are in the hands of the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League, which must render its decision on Monday concerning the incidents of the L2 Bordeaux-Rodez match, a crucial verdict for the rise and relegation.

The ten members of the commission chaired by Sébastien Deneux will meet from 1 p.m. at the LFP headquarters in Paris, with the heavy task of deciding on the events that led to the stoppage of this match in the first half on June 2. the 38th and last day after the aggression by a Bordeaux supporter of the Ruthenian player Lucas Buades, author of the opener.

The file placed under investigation since June 5

This part was decisive both for the Girondins, engaged in a distance sprint with Metz for a return to the elite, and for Rodez, in the fight with Annecy to avoid the descent into National. However, at 1-0 in favor of the visitors, Bordeaux missed their ticket for the L1 in favor of the Messins, while Rodez escaped relegation to the detriment of the Haut-Savoyards. This is to say the issue surrounding this special session of the disciplinary committee which must finally ratify the final classification of the L2. On June 5, she decided to place the case under investigation “in view of the seriousness of the facts” and not to count the result of the match.

For the moment, at the top of the table, only Le Havre, crowned champion, is guaranteed to be promoted to Ligue 1 while there is still a place to be allocated for the descent alongside Niort, Nîmes and Dijon, already condemned .

On paper, it doesn’t smell good for Bordeaux

Several options are possible: a defeat on the green carpet of the Girondins, a meeting to be replayed and/or a point penalty for Bordeaux. Jurisprudence does not encourage optimism for the Bordeaux people since the latest incidents involving supporters and players have caused heavy sanctions for the host clubs.

For example, Nice received two penalty points (and one suspended) after misbehavior when hosting OM in August 2021. Lyon lost one point after a bottle throw on Marseille’s Dimitri Payet in November of the same year. These matches, both definitively stopped, had also been replayed. But the deal is more complex this time since the season is supposed to be over and the Bordeaux and Ruthenian players have been put to rest pending the outcome of the procedure.

Since the events of June 2, each camp has advanced its pawns on the media terrain. The Bordeaux leaders published a statement on Saturday demanding that the game be replayed without receiving any sanction and announced the filing of a complaint against Rodez, for “violation of the rules relating to sports ethics and fair play”.

The Girondins argue that Lucas Buades suffered “no injury” and that the Aveyron club did not “cooperate spontaneously with the investigators in the hours and days following the event”, which motivates their complaint. According to them, the sole aggression of the supporter cannot have caused “the concussion invoked by the player”, which would rather result from a shock with his teammates who came to surround him to celebrate his goal. They also ensure that “the security conditions were met” to resume the meeting.

The president of Annecy, Sébastien Faraglia, for his part indicated that if “no violence on the ground should take place”, on the other hand “to take advantage of external events to profit from them such as the maintenance of his club, by betraying the football, is also contrary to sporting ethics”. The leader protested against the hypothesis of a meeting won on green carpet by the RAF (Rodez Aveyron Football), “because it is the most elaborate form of cheating, which is very serious”. Comments described as “inadmissible” by the Rodez club.