At the most crucial moment of the campaign, the Covid-19 he was cruel to the plans of Junior. The rojiblanco team, which this Wednesday the United Coquimbo (Chile) will be measured, from 7:30 pm, at the Metropolitan Stadium, in the quarterfinals of the Copa Sudamericana; and on Sunday against America, In the semi-final of the League, on the same stage, he registered seven positives for coronavirus, five players and two important members of the coaching staff.
THE HERALD he met on Tuesday night, after 8 pm, through a club source, the results of the tests that were practiced and that removed five footballers from competition, including a rigorous starter, two that alternated in the eleventh star and others that are usually emerging. We refrain from revealing their names out of respect for their privacy.
The shark set has drawbacks to make up the lineup and all of the alternates. It only has 18 players, of which three are archers.
Apart from the new ones infected with Covid-19, A player was already incapacitated for the same reason after the duel against Tolima, in Bogotá. And Larry Vásquez and Teófilo Gutiérrez are suspended and Luis ‘Cariaco’ González suffered a fracture of the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. Also, Cristian Higuita, who spent more time in the medical department than on the court, is not training with the squad.
Junior arrived in Barranquilla on Monday afternoon after facing the matches against Unión La Calera, in Chile, in the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana, and against América, the previous Sunday in the semi-final of the League, at the stadium Pascual Guerrero, from Cali.
Junior Statement
Before the bad news was known, Junior published the following statement: “The Deportivo Popular Junior club is allowed to inform the media and the general public that as a result of the information that has appeared on social networks in relation to possible contagions in our campus, it must be said that they lack total veracity, Therefore we state that yesterday, between 3 and 4 in the afternoon, after the arrival of the team to Barranquilla, PCR tests were carried out on the red and white team and the results of the same they have not yet been delivered by the laboratory.
We consider that it is not prudent to state that there are infected members of our delegation. Once the laboratory that carried out the PCR tests on the entire campus, gives us the results, we will inform about them in due course ”.
How would you play?
Junior’s starting formation to face Coquimbo Unido would be the following: Sebastián Viera; Marlon Piedrahita, Dany Rosero, Germán Mera, Fabián Viáfara; Edwuin Cetré, Fabián Ángel, James Sánchez, Freddy Hinestroza; Miguel Borja, Michael Rangel (Daniel Moreno).
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