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Corona-stricken Atletico Madrid are expected to host Chelsea in Warsaw in the Champions League

Following travel restrictions from England to Spain, Sociedad will also be forced to host Manchester United in Turin.

Atletico have announced two more contractors, and are already considering moving on to personal training

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Monday, 08 February 2021, 19:25

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Atletico Madrid continues to suffer from the corona: Although the team safely leads the Spanish league table and looks on the way to the championship with 50 points from 19 games, but today (Monday) the team announced two more contenders: Hector Herrera and Thomas Lamar, who were found positive in tests.

The two join a long line of contagious Atletico, including Joao Felix who is currently in solitary confinement.

Also Yannick Crasco and Mario Hermoso were found positive and were not on the roster, when earlier during the epidemic five more were infected, including coach Diego Simeone.

As a result, the team's training was canceled before tonight's game against Salta Vigo, when the players were advised to come to the game without training.

The team is very stressed about the rate of infection (six players in the last ten days) knowing that the British variant is increasing the infection, and are already considering moving to personal training for part of the week.

The rate of infection currently prevents the group from shutting down, which would have happened if there had been three new infections every 72 hours.

Luckily, there were "only" two.

Meanwhile, the UK is also under pressure from Corona in Spain, and it is possible that neither Manchester United nor Chelsea will play their games in Spain due to the UK ban on traveling to Spain.

The ban is currently in effect until February 16, but it is estimated that it will be extended.

In England it is reported that Atletico will host Chelsea in Warsaw Poland (February 23), while Real Sociedad will host United at the Juventus stadium in Turin.

As you may recall, Liverpool's game against Leipzig has already been moved to Budapest.

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