And six. Paris-SG announced Thursday evening that “Three new positive cases” new coronavirus had been detected within its workforce, bringing the number of cases identified among the champions of France to six.
“The latest SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests carried out within the Paris-Saint-Germain workforce confirm the results of three new positive cases”, indicated on Twitter the club, information which increases the uncertainty around the maintenance of Lens-PSG on September 10 in Ligue 1, a match that had been scheduled for August 29.
Captain Marquinhos as well as Keylor Navas and Mauro Icardi were infected, says the sports daily The team. Their names are in addition to the three already communicated: Neymar, Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes.
Ibiza Holidays
All these players were present in Ibiza during the leave granted by PSG after the Champions League final lost against Bayern Munich. Players who spent their holidays away from the Spanish island were tested on Thursday, later than the others.
The holidays for Paris-SG players in Ibiza go badly in Lens, where the Blood and Gold supporters are annoyed about a possible new postponement in Ligue 1. “We let some things do to some and we suffer”, fulminates Dominique Leroux, president of the group of supporters Sang et Or, Captain Siko.
The health protocol currently set up by the Professional Football League (LFP) provides for the possibility of postponing a match from four positive cases within a club over eight days. The LFP certainly wants to amend the rule to ensure “That as long as 20 players in the squad are negative, then the match can be maintained”, according to the explanations delivered Wednesday by Didier Quillot. But the executive director general of the LFP did not specify when the rule could come into force.
Steve Mandanda tested positive
If the match were to be held, Parisian coach Thomas Tuchel would in any case be faced with a puzzle. In addition to contaminated players and therefore unavailable, he will have to deal with the state of form of his French internationals Kylian Mbappé and Presnel Kimpembe, selected with the Blues to face Croatia two days before the match in Lens.
Match for which the number 2 goalkeeper of the France team, Steve Mandanda, tested positive for Covid-19 twice and had to forfeit. The Marseille goalkeeper will leave the group on Friday morning, said the management of the France team two days before the League of Nations match in Sweden.
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