New year, new life for Unicaja Banco Oviedo Baloncesto, which seems to have overcome the new attack of the covid. All the antigen tests carried out yesterday on the squad before training gave negative results, with which Natxo Lezkano will be able to count on all the troops to start tomorrow against Palencia the tough January slope. A different matter will be the state of form of each one after having overcome the disease, although in almost all cases the symptoms were mild.
In this way, and unless there are new positives in the next few hours, the Oviedo team recovers the normality that it lost on December 12, after falling on the Huesca track. Upon return from the expedition, symptoms began in one of the players, and tests showed up to three positives in the squad. The club decided to stop training for ten days, but on the return to activity there was another positive. All of them have already overcome it.
The team’s coach, Natxo Lezkano, wants to make up for lost time and scheduled training sessions for yesterday, today and even tomorrow morning, before the afternoon game (Pumarín, 8 pm). After postponing three games scheduled for December, the OCB calendar is from here until the end of January, a period in which he will have to play up to seven games: tomorrow against Palencia, on 9 in Lleida, on 12 in Pumarín against Girona ; on the 16th in Melilla and another three home games scheduled on the 20th against Palma, on the 23rd against Estudiantes and on the 29th against Alicante, a clash with which the second round will begin.
At least, the club will be able to continue maintaining the capacity of 80 percent, which will allow it a good atmosphere and extra income for the matches against Palencia, Girona and Palma, included in a pack planned for Christmas and which has been delayed. Tomorrow’s rival, Palencia, cannot say the same, since the Government of Castilla y León has decided to apply the 50 percent internal capacity restriction adopted in the last Interterritorial Health Council in its territory.
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