Olympique de Marseille announced on Tuesday that three “new suspected cases” of Covid-19 have been “detected” within its professional workforce. "The club contacted today the LFP commission (Professional Football League, Editor's note) provided for this purpose," he said in a statement.
These suspected cases, if they have yet to be confirmed, compromise the meeting scheduled for next Sunday in Brest, while five positive cases had already been identified last week (Jordan Amavi, Maxime Lopez, Steve Mandanda, Dimitri Payet and Valentin Rongier). The match of the first day against Saint-Etienne, initially scheduled for last Friday, has been postponed to September 17.
These decisions to postpone matches are taken by the League within a “Covid commission”, in particular in the event that more than three players or supervisors test positive in the same team.
This established protocol is now being discussed. "It must be revisited", said Monday Didier Quillot, the executive director general of the LFP. In particular, this proposes that Ligue 1 be inspired by the model put in place by UEFA for its Lisbon Final 8 (no questioning of the matches if the team has 13 healthy players including the goalkeeper).
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