This Tuesday two cases of coronavirus were detected in Barcelona. He reported that two of his footballers tested positive in the campus tests before restarting with practices after the stoppage for Christmas. The Spanish club detailed in their social networks that Dani Alves and Clément Lenglet are isolated and without serious symptoms, but they must be absent from the first training sessions.
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La Liga activity will return on December 31 with the duel between Valencia and Espanyol, but Barcelona will be presented again only on Sunday, January 2, during their visit to Mallorca for matchday 9 of the tournament. Both the French defender and the Brazilian full-back will surely miss that commitment and it will be necessary to see if they recover in time for the clash against Linares for the 16th of the Copa del Rey stipulated for January 5.
“Clément Lenglet and Dani Alves have tested positive for Covid-19 and will not be joining the Joan Gamper Sports City tomorrow at 6 pm. The players are in good health and isolated at home. The Club has informed the competent authorities, ”the club said in a brief statement released on social media. The truth is that the Catalan team is not the only one concerned about the sixth wave of covid that is hitting Europe.
As reported by the newspaper AS, Real Madrid decided to “take extreme care” and asked all its players to “strictly comply with the COVID protocol to avoid new positives.” Is that several of the team’s figures have traveled to different destinations: Benzema and Camavinga are in Dubai, while Fede Valverde has flown to South America and Vinicius Jr. chose to go to the United States, for example. That has generated fear in the club authorities who fear an outbreak within their squad.
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Despite the increase in cases, the Spanish league does not have a stop scheduled and in case any cast suffers too many infections, their situation will be analyzed and then how to proceed will be decided. In December, Spanish first division clubs registered 66 positive cases, among players and staff, 12 of them at Rayo Vallecano and 10 at Real Sociedad.
As for sports, in La Liga Real Madrid is the undisputed leader with 46 points, eight more than Sevilla, its immediate pursuer. Barcelona is seventh, out of the classification zone for international competitions, with 28 units and will need to improve under the command of Xavi Hernández if he aspires to get a ticket to the next Champions League.
For its part, the Premier League announced on Monday that it had registered 103 positive cases of covid-19 among the 20 clubs of the English first division between December 20 and 26, a record number in that time frame since the start of the test in 2020. Despite this, since he has postponed several matches, it was decided not to suspend the championship.
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