A GREEK Tremendous League conflict between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos was deserted after a participant was struck by a firework.
The sport between the 2 fierce rivals has beforehand been labelled “Europe’s maddest derby”.
Panathinaikos’ Spanish defender Juankar was hit by a firecracker thrown by rival followersCredit score: AFP
And tonight’s encounter definitely lived as much as that billing after the surprising incident 5 minutes into the second half.
The scores have been degree at 1-1 when the away aspect despatched their substitutes out alongside the touchline to heat up.
Nonetheless, Panathinaikos’ Spanish star Juankar was struck by a firecracker thrown from the group.
The membership’s social media account posted: “A firecracker falls on the gamers of our workforce who’re warming up. Juankar is on the bottom injured.
“Interruption within the match. Our workforce retires to the locker room.”
He fell all the way down to the ground injured as play was first suspended on the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus, Greece.
The 33-year-old left-back obtained remedy earlier than he was taken away on a medical cart.
With followers nonetheless inside the bottom, the delay reached the 60 minute mark as data on what was taking place appeared to be scarce.
Panathinaikos then posted one other replace that appeared to counsel that their squad have been reluctant to depart the altering room.
They stated: “An hour has handed since stoppage time within the derby. Our workforce stays within the locker room.”
The match was ultimately deserted, as confirmed by Panathinaikos on social media.
They wrote on X: “The referee closed the match sheet and the destiny of the match will likely be determined within the courts…”
The disgusting scenes ensued solely minutes after Olympiacos had equalised.
After Juankar was taken away, his team-mates and Panathinaikos employees quickly adopted.
One report in Greece claims that they have been demanding that the participant be taken to hospital for additional checks whereas the referee was making an attempt to persuade them to return to the pitch.
In the meantime, the Olympiacos gamers remained on the turf for round half an hour earlier than in addition they headed again into the altering room.
A tannoy announcement was made round 9:30pm native time saying {that a} choice on whether or not play would restart can be made shortly.
Nonetheless, the gamers by no means got here again out.
Again in 2019, Panathinaikos’ conflict with Olympiacos was deserted after their followers attacked rival gamers and tear gasoline unfold onto the pitch.
The referee was compelled to cease the match after simply 4 minutes when hooligans brutally ambushed the visiting workforce’s bench.
Round 30 Panathinaikos followers entered the sphere and attacked the gamers earlier than police intervened.
The fixture was stopped for eight minutes earlier than official Marco Fritz allowed the sport to hold on.
However violence continued exterior of the stadium when Miguel Angel Guerrero opened the scoring for Olympiacos.
Police used tear gasoline to try to management the crowds as supporters within the bottom set fireplace to banners.
The sport was ultimately known as off within the seventieth minute because the tear gasoline used affected the gamers and followers.