December 9 – French top-flight side Lyon have been docked one point after their home game last month against Marseille was abandoned when the visitors’ Dimitri Payet was hit on the head by a bottle.
The match, which was only five minutes old at the time of the incident, will be replayed from the start behind closed doors at a date still to be determined.
Lyon, who are 12th in Ligue 1, were ordered to play two home games behind closed doors but they have already hosted Reims in an empty stadium, losing that match 2-1 last week.
Payet was hit by a full bottle of water thrown from the Lyon support as he went to take a corner. The Lyon fan responsible was arrested and handed a six-month suspended prison sentence while also being banned from Lyon’s stadium for five years.
It was the latest violent incident to scar a Ligue 1 game this season. Former France international Payet, 34, was also hit by a bottle during a game at Nice in August.
On Wednesday Marseille were separately fined €10,000 for “discriminatory comments” aimed at the South Korean player Suk Hyun-jun of Troyes in a game on November 28.
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