The “April cluster” continues to wreak havoc in La Gaillette, where the uncertainty is total and the concern is very present in terms of health in all services, especially in the professional sector.
After dominating Lorient (4-1) this last Sunday with a group of five players affected by Covid-19 (Badé, Fofana, Ganago, Mauricio and Medina), RC Lens is thus preparing his trip to Brest this Sunday with a one more man in solitary confinement, Jo Gradit, who tested positive on Monday. And the Sang et Or are in fear of a seventh case after the appearance of symptoms in a player on Wednesday. The whole group was tested again during the day and the results were still expected late in the evening (or this Thursday morning).
No postponement considered yet
Regarding a possible postponement of the match on Sunday in Brest if this seventh case were true, the question can undoubtedly be asked with more legitimacy but not really visibility either. According to the protocol of the Professional Football League, it is indeed necessary eleven positive players on a list of thirty to record a postponement. We are not there and today nobody knows how the cluster can evolve in the coming hours.
For Racing, which must defend this Sunday its fifth place on the ground of a team still concerned by maintaining, the preparation conditions are in any case always more complicated.
Franck Haise, who is also deprived of Sotoca (calf), does not know on which foot to dance or on which group he can count. It being understood that a seventh positive case could concern one of the eight players spared so far (Boura, Sylla, Traoré, Doucouré, Kakuta, Sotoca, Banza or Jean); but also one of the players already affected by the Covid since we know that he can strike several times.
With a third of the workforce and half of the holders offside, the Sang et Or coach is therefore facing a real headache. If he may have a slim hope of recovering one or more players coming out of isolation on Saturday morning, players who will not have trained for the week but could be requalified in the event of a negative test, the technician is also forced to go and draw resources from the young people of the reserve. Young people who are not lacking in talent, but which are sorely lacking in competition since the N2 has been at a standstill for a long time this season.
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