Olympique de Marseille playmaker Dimitri Payet received three firm suspension matches plus two suspended sentences from the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League (LFP), meeting Wednesday in Paris. PSG defender Achraf Hakimi and AC Ajaccio midfielder Thomas Mangani, excluded during the match between the two teams on May 13, each received two firm suspensions.
Dimitri Payet is sanctioned for slapping Lens istant coach Yannick Cahuzac on May 6 at the Bollaert stadium. Lens won 2-1. Yannick Cahuzac was sanctioned with a firm match and another suspended. 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 and would still have a match to serve next season.
The slap of the Marseillais had escaped Clément Turpin
The disciplinary committee had taken up the Payet file while the slap from Marseille had escaped the referee Clément Turpin and the video istance. The gesture was then relayed by the broadcaster Prime Video. 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 istant, Yannick Cahuzac, who was sent off for his hostile behavior. 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 during the victory over Troyes (3-1) at the Vélodrome.