Montpellier (AFP)
The meeting between Montpellier (L1) and Clermont (L2), which was to take place on Saturday in Millau (Aveyron), was canceled as a health precaution, said the Hérault club on Wednesday.
"As a measure of health precautions, Montpellier, Clermont and the Millau club have taken the decision, with regret, to cancel the match scheduled for Saturday August 8 in Millau," informs the MHSC in a statement.
A player in the workforce of coach Michel Der Zakarian, who would be Florent Mollet according to various media, was affected by the Covid-19, after tests carried out on Monday. The Montpellier playmaker would have been contaminated following the disputed friendly match against Strasbourg in Divonne-les-Bains (Ain) on July 28.
Two weeks before the resumption of the championship against Lyon, Montpellier was forced to cancel three of its six preparation matches, including the one scheduled for Wednesday in Marseille. He still has one last match to play in Rodez (L2) on August 14.
"The team and the staff will be tested as planned on Friday," said the press release from the Hérault club.
Four days after the first tests, the entire workforce will undergo a new battery of examinations to determine whether new cases have emerged.
Since the start of the health crisis, five players from the Hérault professional workforce have been infected with the coronavirus. In addition to midfielder Junior Sambia, hospitalized in April, Cameroonian international Ambroise Oyongo, Serbian Mihailo Ristic and young Thibault Tamas were in turn affected by Covid-19 and placed in quarantine.
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