No team in the Smartbank League survives the dangerous ravages of the contagious omicron variant and all of them are absent from training or matches due to it. Without going any further, Girona yesterday made a list of the players who travel to Alcoraz to face Huesca where there were seven casualties, five of which are for Covid. The same as the Barça team. However, the team that confirmed the most in recent days was Mirandés with a tenth, followed by Sporting de Gijón with nine. The one who counted the least is Zaragoza with one, that of Pep Chavarria from Empordà.
In the Santander League, the Real Sociedad is the team with the most possible cases of Covid, ten, as it has not yet confirmed them one hundred percent. He is followed by Celta and Rayo with eight possible casualties. Alava and Betis are the least likely to present a case. While Villarreal is the only First Division team that decided not to make public any information about the situation regarding the virus.
“It seems crazy to me that the party is not postponed.” This was said by Xavi Hernández, Barça’s coach, yesterday at the pre-match press conference against Mallorca when he was referred to the avalanche of casualties that both teams have due to the growing number of positives in the omicron variant. “It’s unfair to have to play on Sunday,” said Rubi, the coach of an Almeria midfielder out of action before receiving Cartagena. Two statements that have enough and strong arguments behind them to be exposed.
Both sets play their respective matches caught with tweezers. Up to seventeen casualties, nine of which are for Covid, account for Barcelona facing a Mallorca that announced it has up to seven infected. Less detailed has been the information given by Almeria on its casualties in recent days; but it is known that the former Girona coach is half a team away from home to receive Cartagena.
Barcelona, Mallorca and Almeria are currently experiencing first-hand the ravages of the new omicron variant. More contagious, but also less dangerous according to scholars, it is feeding on computer-based good. Few First and Second Division teams have no infected players. Some confirm it and others keep it. However, by reviewing, which need not be exhaustive, the list of players participating in training or the respective calls, it is possible to be right about who or how many have been infected and will be low.
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