At VfB Stuttgart, one day before the away game at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Orel Mangala and thus the sixth player tested positive for Corona within a shorter period of time.
The Belgian midfielder was immediately isolated and will be out of the game on Saturday (6.30 p.m. / Sky), as the Swabian Bundesliga club announced on Friday.
Stuttgart - The test result is “definitely a setback for us.
On the one hand, because we had hoped to be spared further positive cases.
And on the other hand, because Orel was on the way back to old strength after his injury ”, said sporting director Sven Mislintat.
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Mangala is the fourth regular player who will be absent from the Stuttgart team after the also isolated head of defense Waldemar Anton, goalkeeper Florian Müller and winger Roberto Massimo.
In addition, Erik Thommy is also out due to a positive corona test.
After all, VfB in Gladbach could rely on substitute goalkeeper Fabian Bredlow, who tested negative again after his quarantine on Friday.
Whether Bredlow or the third goalkeeper Florian Schock will appear, coach Pellegrino Matarazzo will not decide until after the final training on Friday afternoon.
“Fabian has to feel good too.
In the end I decide after he wasn't in training for ten days, ”said Matarazzo.
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