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00:00an Easter Sunday feast to finish the weekend in Ligue 1 Saint Etienne and Lyon going head-to-head
00:09in the most passionate derby in the French game and this one of course hugely important at both
00:17ends of the table Saint Etienne fighting to avoid relegation and Lyon fighting for a place in the
00:25Champions League next season come here tonight on the back of that defeat against Manchester United
00:32in an incredible Nade just important for Saint Etienne to keep cool heads as well of course
00:43Leo Petro cross it it's a good one header from Stassan and the Belgian put Saint Etienne in front
01:01but look at what that means he's in brilliant form and he wasn't really picked up in the penalty box
01:08Leo Petro with the cross Stassan just left alone it was Moussa Niakate who seemed to be drawn towards
01:15the ball a free header on the edge of the six-yard box Stassan scoring the goal through the legs of Lyon
01:27stand-in goalkeeper Remy Dekon it's his 11th of the season all together for the 20 year old from in
01:36discussions there with the Georgia Maciel Paulo Fonseca's assistant talking tactics and the shot
01:45comes in from Florian Tardieu there's some interesting positions on the left-hand side for Saint Etienne in
01:53the opening stages this evening very difficult of course to execute that skill first time on the
01:58volley and not much goal to aim at from the angle imagine they'll be looking for even more next season
02:06if as expected Alexandre Lacazette moves on
02:22now then it's a red card
02:27for this challenge the studs raking down at the back of Quentin Tolisso's ankle
02:34it's a really painful one for the Olympique Lyonnais player and it doesn't look good in slow motion
02:44i don't think there's any uh real intent to do damage has become the villain because he is the player
02:53Lucas D'Arsan is set off
02:54and Francois Le Texier will come and have a look at the uh VAR screen well very important VAR
03:05checks in that Real Madrid Arsenal Champions League game during the week
03:12and he's produced the red cards he's decided to come by his decision or is he going to
03:16reduce it perhaps to yellow
03:22yeah it's going to be a yellow card instead of the red
03:35right then
03:40Lacazette gets a yellow card
03:41he did catch the Saint Etienne player
03:49Leon trailing in the derby
03:59and Lacuocu with a bit of a miss hit and it's uh fallen for
04:05nearly a disastrous introduction for Polacu
04:07of an immediate return to Ligue 2 how they need the victory tonight to boost their survival hopes
04:16Lacuocu's pass is intercepted and he then gives away the free kick for catching Davitashvili and he's
04:22going to get a yellow card as well it's really not
04:25no Nemanja Matic this evening for Lyon
04:35Saint Etienne get it clear
04:37here comes Lucas D'Arsan
04:40socks rolled down around his ankles plays it in for Davitashvili he's through on goal
04:45and he's missed the target Zuriko Davitashvili
04:48that was for Saint Etienne to double their lead
04:52Davitashvili in behind the Lyon defence he should have scored
04:59seven goals the Georgian has got he's been eclipsed as Saint Etienne's leading attacking player
05:06well the shot coming in from Vertu well that's a bit better
05:20Stassan Stassan Stassan with a brilliant shot from range
05:39Kastassan just popping up in a bucket of space and then letting fly and Remy Dekon got his fingertips to that
05:50Tettienne can keep him beyond this season because he is proving to be a revelation
06:03in the second half of this campaign now then the assistant referee on the far side has clearly
06:08been struck by something which is not good news
06:20well let's hope there is uh no blood drawn here
06:32exactly the kind of thing that we do not want to see and the Saint Etienne players are just
06:37looking towards their fans on that side and calling on them to calm down a bit because if
06:43something has been thrown at the assistant referee well that is uh pretty awful
06:49the referee appears to be calling a halt to the game here
07:02it's a bit of confusion about uh exactly what is the decision by the referee it looks like he's
07:11taking everybody off the pitch and uh we'll try to get some clarity on this
07:16but uh it looks like a pretty uh categorical decision by the referee the first half is not finished we uh
07:25should now be into stoppage time at the end of the half and there should be several minutes of that so
07:30and that would suggest that this is not a case of the first half being stopped early but
07:47i'm gonna have to try and find out exactly uh
07:57what the officials decide to do
08:00and we will keep you up to date as swiftly as possible
08:14so why the players have come off the pitch now let's see this again keep an eye on the assistant
08:18referee on the left hand side and something is thrown it looks like probably a coin
08:21and you can see his reaction there you can see at the impact now let's hope there's no blood drawn but
08:29that is for the assistant referee it's the leon player who was getting ready to take the throw
08:35on the far side perhaps he was the intended target either way it doesn't matter and uh that is why the
08:42referee was swift in his decision to take the teams off the pitch and let's see if they come back out
08:51which will now restart Mehdi Ramouni the assistant referee who was struck by that object
09:04able to retake his place on the far side and the game will begin again in the final seconds of the
09:12first 45 minutes we will then have added time understand about four minutes of that
09:21and then it will be half time
09:39and the game restarting with a leon throw abner vinicius taking it leon trailing one nil
09:46the substitute and uh there is the halftime whistle
09:52so there's the halftime whistle as we just heard almost five more minutes of the first half
10:00sant etienne winning this derby one nil against leon
10:09and it's leon who get us underway then in the second half of the derby
10:13and it has already been a pretty remarkable affair saint etienne were superb in that first half before
10:22the game was halted a long delay almost the length of the first half itself 45 minutes stoppage
10:31the final few minutes of the half played out but saint etienne lead one nil leon have offered very little
10:42lacazette is in looking to go around larsenaire from the angle too high for kumbedi it was in the
10:49middle hans is gone well nevertheless this is better from leon the start of the second half lacazette was in an
10:55offside position with that ball was played going round larsenaire
11:05ball into the middle is come off the head of a saint etienne player home team struggling to get it away
11:12and there's the header from to the second half in stark contrast to the
11:17first period for the away team chaletas are off target
11:26miko tadze lost out saint etienne defending high up the pitch and the
11:33card is going to be produced here now george miko tadze and florian tardieu staying down after that collision
11:39miko tadze treading on the uh
11:47achilles really of uh
11:53free kick then to saint etienne zuriko davitashvili to take it the georgian
11:59high ball which remy decon wasn't too sure about has to tip it over the one-time paris saint-germain
12:06and not keeper has got plenty of experience but still difficult to come in from the cold in a game
12:13like this one but officials are not going to give a penalty for that
12:25now then referee allowing the play to continue there everybody had seen to
12:29a bit of confusion because uh some of the players have thought that ball had gone out with his pace
12:41on the break to coming on in the second half at old trafford
12:46and the shot from range from ecua tremendous hit very nearly two nil
12:59it's in on loan from sunderland's in english championship letting fly
13:06and that one nearly finding the top corner it rattled
13:10hasn't been much to shout about for liver in this fixture in recent times they have lost five of the
13:16last six stessa luca stessa lines up another shot is two nil stessa again
13:24he cannot stop scoring and he has delivered a double in the biggest game of all for this club
13:37and it just fell kindly for stessa just inside the lyon half he was
13:48not challenged the lyon defenders backing off and he was able to pick his spot the form he's in
13:55in he fancied his chances a great finish
14:03bad news for lyon delight
14:09for fun has ball in can leon respond maitland niles
14:15and again it's off the post from ainsley maitland niles
14:19hurt to malik for fun and a young belgian to the floor this was the
14:23shot by maitland niles which came off the upright ainsley maitland niles nearly pulling one back
14:33they beat lille here in september that was the finest result of the campaign
14:39up until now slip by apia for fun that takes advantage and the shot is over the bar from
14:45mikko tanzi in fact it took a deflection on its way
14:51dennis apia nearly paying the price for that slip
15:01lyon heading for a derby defeat they've had seven wins in ten in the league under paulo fonseca
15:07tessman tessman he's pulled one back what a time for tana tessman to get his first lyon goal
15:17and that sets up the possibility of a grandstand finish here
15:22brought in from venezia in italy at the start of the season not brought in to score goals but they
15:31needed a bit of magic from somewhere and test them with a turn to get away from dennis apia to just
15:37open up a little bit of space for the shot expertly done it's saint etienne two lyon one
15:44mouton over the bar from the substitute an immediate reply from saint etienne looking to restore
15:59their two goal advantage john texter with the baseball cap on now keeping his appearance discreet
16:10in the stands yellow card for dennis apia saint etienne's two fullbacks
16:19fourth place enters in the preliminary rounds
16:25david tashvili hits it well off target from the georgian will be in the europa league next season
16:33sixth in the contest touched on for ben old the substitute fancy hitting it from outside the box
16:43it comes off the head of duja chaletasar what happened in manchester malik fufana's cross
16:51petro gets his head to it and
16:53uh trinton mata then catches petro and mata's gonna get a card here for leaving the boots in a high boot
17:09five minutes of stoppage time have come and gone and there is the full-time whistle
17:13set it in pulls off a crucial win and takes all three points keeping their hopes alive in the battle
17:24to avoid relegation thanks for being with us here on main sports set it in take the derby