Marseille defender Eric Bailly was sent off after a horror flying tackle left a French Cup opponent in intensive care on Saturday. Ivory Coast international Bailly, 28, who is on loan from Manchester United, was red-carded after just 15 minutes of the tie at fourth-division amateur side Hyeres when his foot crunched into the chest of Almike Moussa N’Diaye.The stricken Hyeres player was stretchered off before being taken to a local hospital from the modest 8,000-capacity Francis-Turcan stadium in Martigues in southern France.LE TACLE ASSASSIN DE BAILLY EN COUPE DE FRANCE ! 😱🟥pic.twitter.com/efeYjEN0Bg— Midi/Minuit (@midiminuit__) January 7, 2023 Hyeres president Mourad Boudjellal, the colourful and controversial former owner of Toulon rugby club, told AFP that N’Diaye was then transported to another hospital in Marseille, 40km away.”He was transferred to Hopital Nord in Marseille and they admitted him to intensive care, as a precautio. We pray that everything goes well for him. He’s a great lad and one of our best players.” Earlier, coaching staff at Hyeres had been more reassuring. Assistant coach Zaki Noubir said that Almike was quite OK.”It’s more fear than harm, nothing serious, maybe a concussion,. Bailly came quickly into our dressing room to offer his shirt and above all to hear the latest news.”##NAJAVA_MECA_6932701##Despite playing most of the last-64 tie with ten men, Marseille still had too much firepower and ran out 2-0 winners. OM boss Igor Tudor said there will surely be a penalty for Bailly.”On the red card, I didn’t see what happened. But the sending off changed everything and we had to push hard to win. It was a typically dangerous French Cup game. We’ll see later what the penalty will be for Bailly.”CRIMINAL PATADA de Éric Bailly a Moussa N’Diaye en la Copa de Francia. El jugador del Hyères, de la cuarta división, se tuvo que ir en ambulancia. 🇨🇵pic.twitter.com/HG6rHxsjXU— Fodboldworld (@fodboldword) January 7, 2023 Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring with a 45th-minute panenka. Bamba Dieng added the second in the 71st minute.
