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Relegation is the nightmare of any fan, but what was seen this Sunday was highly reprehensible after Saint-Etienne fans attacked their team’s players when relegation to Ligue 2 took place in the playoff match against Auxerre of promotion-relegation of Ligue 1 of France.
Saint-Etienne was defeated 5-4 on penalties against Auxerre and immediately there was an invasion of the pitch that aimed to attack the players, who fearfully fled to the changing rooms when they saw the avalanche of people who were going towards them.
However, some of the players were overtaken by the horde and ended up beaten and intimidated by those who blamed them for being relegated to the second category of French football.
Those who went to the locker room, received a rain of flares and both Saint-Etienne and Auxerre footballers were not unaffected by the effects of tear gas.
The images went around the world and caused reproach on the part of fans and football fans, who condemned the violence in any form.
In this way, Auxerre returns to Ligue 1 a decade later while Saint Etienne, one of the teams with the best record in France being ten times champion, loses the category for the first time from the 2005.