The Covid-19 is inviting itself again in Ligue 1 and is shaking up the calendar.
The Lorient-Dijon match counting for the 20th in Ligue 1 and scheduled for this Sunday in Brittany is postponed.
More than ten players from the Breton club are affected by Covid-19 and the Professional Football League (LFP) has announced the postponement of the match this Friday noon.
FC Lorient - Dijon FCO postponed
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"After the opinion of the National Covid Commission" of the French Football Federation (FFF), the LFP Competitions Commission "decided to postpone the match" after noting "the certain absence of more than ten players on the list of thirty FC Lorient players due to positive RT-PCR tests, ”specifies the League.
Twelve Breton players tested positive
In accordance with the medical protocol decreed at the beginning of September by the League, the postponement of a meeting is considered if one of the two teams cannot present at least twenty players tested negative on an initial list of thirty.
This is the case: a twelfth player from the Lorient team had tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.
Already last week, four players from the Breton club had tested positive and placed in solitary confinement as part of the checks before the match the following Saturday in Bordeaux, where FCL lost 2-1.
Negative confirmation tests finally allowed two of these players to return to the squad in time for the match.
However, the tests conducted every day since have revealed seven new cases, including two members of the management, Tuesday, then four more cases Wednesday and finally this new case Thursday.
That is a total of twelve players, including eleven of the thirty members of the professional group.
Lorient also has a suspended player and several injured.
This is the first match postponed due to the pandemic since Marseille-Nice on the 11th day, decision dating from November 17.
The last professional match postponed in France was Niort-Valenciennes, in Ligue 2, scheduled for December 22.
The match was given lost to the Chamois Niortais.