Football: Coach expelled, match abandoned... Tension during a friendly match between OM women's team in Girona

News from the women's section of Olympique de Marseille. Currently training in Girona, Frédéric Gonçalves' team played a friendly match on Wednesday evening against Barcelona's Club Esportiu Europa. A friendly, at least until the half-hour mark, when two members of the Marseille staff received a red card, including the coach, who allegedly refused to come off for several minutes, according to the Spanish club's X account , which offered a live stream of the match.

The report also reports "moments of high tension with constant violent behavior from the players and local staff," culminating in an offside position five minutes from the end that lit the fuse. The scenarios differ as to the outcome of the match. On X, the Catalan team indicated that the match " did not continue " and " the two teams, now calmed down, went to the locker rooms ," while La Provence indicates that "other sources specify that the match did go to its end but that the referee did not allow any additional time."

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The fact remains that Marseille won 2-1 thanks to goals from Mathilde Bourdieu and Roselène Khezami. They will play a second match on Saturday against Levante (6 p.m.), before the resumption of D1 on September 7 against the reigning champions, Olympique Lyonnais, now OL Lyonnes . In the meantime, tension continues to reign at all levels of the Marseille club since the men's section is already experiencing its first crisis after the first Ligue 1 match against Stade Rennais. Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe were placed on the transfer list after a brawl of "unheard-of violence" in the locker room.