Alert in River: Maidana's loss was confirmed due to Covid positive

04/26/2021 21:00

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Updated 04/26/2021 21:00

After being disaffected from the match against San Lorenzo due to a feverish picture, Jonatan Maidana tested positive for Covid in the tests that the squad carried out this Monday as a protocol

prior to each Copa Libertadores match

.

Thus, as it happens in the country and in the world, the Covid once again worries the River team directed by Marcelo Gallardo.

ℹ️ [Medical report] After the PCR swabs carried out this morning, the player Jonatan Maidana tested positive for Covid-19.

The rest of the tests to the members of the squad and the coaching staff gave negative results.

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As soon as he felt the first symptoms before the classic with the Cyclone,

Joni was isolated in a preventive way

and this Monday morning, when he went to the River Camp for the mandatory PCR of Conmebol before the clash with Junior on Wednesday, the central defender

entered for a door different from the others

and had no contact with his companions before returning home to continue with the isolation.

Beyond the logical concern in the midst of this second wave of coronavirus that plagues Argentina, in River some relief came at the same time because the results of the other tests on the other players and the coaching staff

yielded negative results

.

Since he returned to River,

Maidana has played six games

(four of them as a starter).

Five of those matches were for the Professional League Cup and the other for the Argentine Cup: the week before against Fluminense he had gone to the bank but did not enter.

Paulo Díaz and Héctor Martínez

have been the central duo that seems settled.

Maidana, against Atlético Tucumán (photo Mauricio Nievas)

And although

with Gallardo you always have to wait until the formation is officially announced

, that duo would continue against Junior.

With Pinola in recovery after a broken arm and Maidana's positive, Robert Rojas (has not played since March 9) is the other option for the rear in addition to the youthful

Tomás Lecanda, included in the copera list

but who has not yet debuted first.

Background

Milton Casco in September last year, Rafael Borré in November, Enzo Pérez in December, Jorge Carrascal in February of this year and Jorge Moreira - not yet discharged -

are the other River players who contracted coronavirus

since the start of the pandemic .

They are joined by Ezequiel Centurión -now in Estudiantes de Buenos Aires- and some close friends or members of the coaching staff.

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