A pistillate referee was injured and had to permission the transportation aft being knocked to the crushed during a affable betwixt French club Metz and Fortuna Sittard of the Netherlands.
Mathilde Demoncay reportedly suffered concussion, external erstwhile she was knocked to the crushed arsenic she tried to interruption up a melee betwixt the players.
Tension flared in the 40th infinitesimal erstwhile 2 opposing players confronted each different aft a shirt-tugging incident, with different players rushed to articulation successful the confrontation.
Demoncay ended up on the crushed aft attempting to intervene, falling heavily.
She remained connected the transportation for respective minutes, holding her arm, portion adjunct referees, information unit and medical unit ran connected to the transportation to reconstruct bid and assess her condition.
The 26-year-old Demoncay resumed arsenic the assistant referee aft play restarted but near the tract astatine half-time, with different assistant taking implicit her duties.
Metz won the crippled 3-1.
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