Situation in France causes postponements – PSG game affected

The tense situation in France has a direct impact on play in Ligue 1. The top game between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyon was moved from Sunday to Monday evening at the request of the Paris police, the French football league announced on Friday. Both teams are tied at the top of the table with 14 points each.

The game will now take place on Monday at 8:30 p.m. local time at the Parc des Princes. The new date coincides with the Ballon d’Or awards in London. Ten PSG players are on the list of 30 nominees. You probably won't be able to attend the gala.

New riots are now feared this weekend. France is preparing a massive police presence and shops are also being barricaded. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced the deployment of a total of 70,000 police and gendarmes in public spaces and a tough crackdown. Both local emergency forces from the various departments as well as members of the mobile emergency forces, the republican security companies and the mobile gendarmerie units are being mobilized, said Nuñez in Paris. In addition to special and elite police units, armored vehicles and water cannons would also be used.

Four games in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 affected

The game between PSG and Lyon is not the only one that has to be postponed due to the security situation. A total of four games are currently affected in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. In the top division, the game between FC Toulouse and ES Troyes AC was postponed from Saturday to late Sunday afternoon (5.15 p.m.) “at the request of the Haute-Garonne Prefecture”.