a meeting organized with the South Winners and the CU84 after the violent fight at the Vélodrome

OM management summoned the South Winners and CU84 this Friday at the Vélodrome, three days after a fight that occurred in the south turn during the Coupe de France match against Losc.

More than regrettable images. Tuesday evening, during Marseille's elimination in the Coupe de France against Losc, a violent fight broke out at the bottom of the south turn. Incidents which pushed OM management to react. A meeting took place late Friday afternoon at the Vélodrome at the initiative of the Marseille leaders, in the presence of the two groups of supporters from this same corner, the South Winners and the CU84.

Fabrizio Ravanelli, in particular, represented the club and wanted to establish a dialogue between the two groups to clarify things and burst the abscess.

Guest of Rothen ignites on RMC Wednesday evening, Pablo Longoria explained that he wanted to carry out an internal investigation and promised that the club would be very attentive to this situation. Hence the decision to call this meeting on the part of OM. “The theme of supporters is for me a very important subject, very sensitive, in the sense that I like everyone to be able to feel safe at the stadium,” commented Longoria. “In the same way that I like to see the fans moving outside, something that we lack in this championship. But yes, it is normal that as a club, we have to analyze what happened .”

A meeting which helped ease tensions

The discussions helped to ease certain tensions. Even if frictions have already existed in the past between Winners and Ultras, the exact causes of this fight remain a little unclear, but this meeting would have had the merit of calming things down on the eve of the return to the Vélodrome for OM-Strasbourg this Sunday evening (8:45 p.m.) in Ligue 1.

Falling on penalties against Losc in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, OM only have the championship to play at the end of the season. Second in Ligue 1 after 17 days, seven points behind PSG, Marseille remains on a good run with 16 points taken in the league in the last six matches.