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a third of GF38 players positive for the virus, the match against Niort postponed

After the postponement of the Ligue 2 match against AS Nancy-Lorraine last Saturday, the meeting scheduled for October 31 against Niort at the René Gaillard stadium is in turn postponed. The GF38 workforce is suffering the full brunt of the epidemic: 10 new players have tested positive for Covid-19.

On its official website, the Grenoble football club had already shown the October 31 match against Chamois Niortais. But this Tuesday, October 27, the announced program is replaced by the press release from the Professional Football League:

After the opinion of the national COVID FFF commission, noting the certain absence of more than 10 players on the list of 30 of Grenoble Foot 38, due to positive RT-PCR test, the LFP Competitions commission, under the ‘Article 2.4.2.2 of the health protocol for the organization of matches for the 2020.21 season decided to postpone the match against Niort, counting for the 9th day of League 2 BKT, to a later date “.

The League’s medical protocol stipulates that a match can be postponed if a club does not have a minimum of 20 players, including a goalkeeper, tested negative on the list of 30 players declared to the LFP.

This is not quite a surprise, after the postponement, still not rescheduled for the rest, last Saturday of the match against AS Nancy-Lorraine. Grenoble had, at that time, 13 players who tested positive.

The club, so far relatively spared, is now suffering the full brunt of the second wave of the coronavirus. On October 1, nine cases had already been declared positive, including five players but also members of the staff.

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