FC Metz, rather spared since the start of the pandemic, announced to AFP on Monday that it had four cases of Covid within its professional workforce, confirming information from the daily Le Républicain Lorrain.
According to the regional newspaper, these would include strikers Papa-Ndiaga Yade, Opa Nguette and Lenny Joseph, who did not participate in the friendly match against Sedan (1-0 victory) on Sunday.
Still according to the daily, "
they should be back in training in the middle of the week
".
This is a new blow for the Moselle club, which is already greatly diminished by the absence of seven players selected to play the African Cup of Nations in January in Cameroon.
Eighteenth and barrage in the standings with 16 points, FC Metz will host RC Strasbourg (10th), its great rival, on Sunday on behalf of the 20th day of L1.
