A match behind closed doors between OM and Frankfurt, September 20, 2018 at the Vélodrome. - Boris HORVAT / AFP

All Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches scheduled by April 15 will take place "in camera," the Professional Football League (LFP) announced Tuesday after government measures taken to deal with the spread of the epidemic. of coronavirus. The LFP said in a statement that the modalities of the closed games will be defined at the meeting of its office Wednesday.

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Within this one month period, the poster between OM and PSG, which is to be held on Sunday March 22 at the Vélodrome, is particularly concerned. Monday, the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu had said that all football matches by April 15, like any rally in France, should comply with the maximum gauge of 1,000 people, in accordance with the restrictive measures taken by ministerial decree.

The minister had assumed that "the camera (could) become our doctrine for organizing competitions and professional sport", while advocating "sports continuity", recommendations followed by the LFP. As of Monday evening, a first Championship match, Lens-Orléans in Ligue 2, was disputed without spectators. However, the Ligue 1 meeting between Strasbourg and PSG, originally scheduled for Saturday March 7 at 5:30 p.m., had been postponed.

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