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Football: eight positive players, including two goalkeepers, Nîmes Olympique requests the postponement of its match against Valenciennes

FREE MIDI INFO – The situation is not improving in Nîmes Olympique: after the tests on Wednesday, eight players and five members of the extended staff are positive for Covid-19. According to our information, the club has requested the postponement of its match against Valenciennes, scheduled for Saturday January 15 in Costières. The Professional Football League (LFP) will decide.

The new Nîmes Olympique coach Nicolas Usaï was unable to train this Wednesday morning. Feverish all night, he nevertheless came to the Bastide to consult the club’s doctor. His antigen test was negative, but the technician who won in Dijon for his debut on the crocodile bench (2-1) appears on borrowed time.

Indeed, NO is now 13 positive cases for Covid-19: now eight players, and five members of the extended staff. This has prompted the management of the Gard club to ask the League (LFP), already, the postponement of its meeting against Valenciennes, scheduled for this Saturday, January 15 at 7 p.m. in Costières.

It takes 11 positives to postpone. But NO no longer has a guardian …

What does the current medical protocol say for Ligue 1 and Ligue 2? He indicates that the LFP competitions commission, on the advice of the national Covid FFF commission, may decide to postpone a match “in the event of a potential or proven impossibility for a club to have a group of twenty players, including a goalkeeper, tested negative RT-PCR forming part of the official list of thirty players declared by the club to the LFP for the period of competition considered “.

Clearly, each club must give a list of 30 players. A match can be maintained as long as 20 players (including a goalkeeper) out of this workforce of 30 are negative. However, Nîmes Olympique now has 22 negative players (including one who has barely returned from Covid, Benrahou) but no longer has a goalkeeper! Dias and Bratveit are positive, and Nazih is still injured (on the wrist). But the latter does not have the Covid, so … Can the LFP then ask NO to call an off-list doorman, either Malafosse, or Rothacher, the last ramparts of the reserve?

New tests this Thursday

The competitions commission should decide this Thursday, after the result of the now mandatory PCR tests 48 hours before an official meeting … For the moment, Nicolas Usaï has sent the message to the survivors: “We ignore the situation and we getting ready to play on Saturday! ” This Wednesday morning, the session was not very long but intense: athletic work with the ball, finishing and replacement, on the transitions and a 9 against 9 opposition to finish. While waiting to be numerous enough to replay 11 against 11 …

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