The three fresh coronavirus cases took the total at Marseille to four. © AFP
The French football league (LFP) on Tuesday reshuffled the opening weekend of Ligue 1 after the video game scheduled to begin the season was held off following 3 more positive coronavirus tests at Marseille. Marseille were due to play Saint-Etienne on Friday evening in the very first game shown by the league’s new broadcast partner Mediapro on its specifically produced pay channel, Telefoot. The LFP filled the Friday evening slot by advancing the game between Bordeaux and Nantes, initially set up for Saturday. It will be the first league match in France considering that March 8.
The LFP said the held off Marseille match was to be used either September 16 or 17 “subject to changes in hygienic conditions within the Olympique de Marseille club”.
The 3 fresh coronavirus cases took the overall at Marseille to four, and the club said on Tuesday that all information had actually been passed on to the LFP. The LFP standards state that four cases mean the virus is “prevalent” at a club.
Regional day-to-day La Provence reported that the three favorable tests revealed on Tuesday were from goalkeeper Steve Mandanda and midfielders Maxime Lopez and Valentin Rongier, names that the club would neither verify nor deny to AFP, citing medical privacy.
The earlier favorable supposedly originated from defender Jordan Amavi, who also hinted that was the case on social media.
Andre Villas-Boas’ side cancelled a friendly on August 14 versus Stuttgart of Germany as a safety measure.
Fellow Ligue 1 side Nimes revealed 2 new thought cases in its team and all employees have been put in seclusion pending test results.
Nimes had hosted Marseille on August 9 in a friendly. They are due to host Brest on Sunday in the first round of Ligue 1 matches.
Some 40 players from 11 clubs have actually tested positive for COVID-19 in current weeks.
The large bulk contracted the virus after resuming training in June, resulting in quarantine and a flurry of cancelled pre-season matches.
Two matches slated for this weekend– Paris Saint-Germain against Metz and Montpellier against Lyon— had already been postponed because PSG and Lyon are playing Champions League semi-finals in Portugal.
Because of the health crisis, stadium capacity has been topped at 5,000 though fan groups at a number of clubs said the rules mean they will not go to matches.
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Similarly, the collective of PSG ultras, the club’s main fan group, stated on social networks that they will not hold an occasion on Tuesday night, when their club plays Leipzig in the semi-final of the Champions League behind closed doors in Lisbon.
” We have not found any location that can accommodate our fervour while appreciating the sanitary conditions,” they published.
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