The variety of confirmed circumstances of coronavirus within the Barcelona squad rose to 10, doubtlessly jeopardizing the workforce’s return to league play after Spain’s almost two-week winter break.
Meanwhile, in England, Saturday’s Premier League match between Leicester and Norwich was postponed as Norwich didn’t have the required variety of video games to play on account of the Covid-19 circumstances and accidents. This is the seventeenth match within the league to be canceled within the final one month.
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Sergiño Dest, Coutinho and Ez Abde are optimistic for COVID-19.
The gamers are in good well being and are in self-isolation at residence.
The membership has reported the matter to the involved authorities. pic.twitter.com/pQVqwkykjT
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 30, 2021
Barcelona stated Sergio Dest, Philippe Coutinho and Abde Azlazouli are the most recent gamers to contract Covid-19. They are self-isolating at residence and the workforce stated they had been “in good health”. The membership introduced earlier this week that Osman Dembele, Samuel Umtiti, Gavi, Jordi Alba, Alejandro Balde, Clement Lenglet and Dani Alves had examined optimistic and had been in isolation.
Barcelona have additionally been decimated from accidents going into Sunday’s match in Mallorca in seventh place.
Real Madrid stated on Wednesday that 4 gamers – Vinicius Junior, Thibaut Courtois, Federico Valverde and Eduardo Camavinga – examined optimistic for Covid-19 forward of Sunday’s recreation in opposition to Getafe.
During the break, Dest and Vinicius posted footage from their respective journeys to Miami on Instagram.
They included court-side images and images with star Jimmy Butler at a Miami Heat basketball recreation.
Vinicius’s account concerned considered one of them with warmth guard Tyler Herro. Everyone is sporting a masks within the footage.
On Wednesday, the Heat had been unable to fulfill the NBA’s requirement of eight obtainable gamers for the sport in opposition to San Antonio, inflicting it to be postponed. 12 gamers had been listed as out resulting from a mixture of accidents and optimistic virus checks in Miami.
England
Leicester now have three matches to carry, with the primary fixtures in opposition to Everton and Tottenham having been cancelled.
Following a request from Norwich, the Premier League board met as we speak and regretfully agreed to postpone the membership’s match in opposition to Leicester to be performed at 3 pm on 1 January.
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— Premier League (@premierleague) December 30, 2021
Norwich, who’re in final place, can have two video games excellent in opposition to West Ham after the sooner postponement.
Premier League groups are required to have 13 outfield gamers and one goalkeeper obtainable to play in a match, and the league acknowledged that was not the case with Norwich.
It is the primary recreation to be canceled within the twenty first spherical of matches.
France
French membership Angers has requested the soccer league to postpone its residence recreation in opposition to Saint-Etienne on January 9 due to the excessive variety of coronavirus circumstances.
Angers stated there have been 19 confirmed circumstances in its squad of 30 gamers and not more than 10 could be licensed to play once more till January 10. Angers stated one other 5 employees members have the virus.
Angers had 5 gamers with COVID-19 when it misplaced 4-1 at Montpellier on 22 December earlier than the winter break.
Strasbourg stated coach Julian Steffen has the virus however is exhibiting no signs.
Meanwhile, Lyon’s midfielder Lucas Paqueta wrote on Instagram that he examined optimistic whereas on vacation in Dubai and is in isolation there.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
