Nimes (AFP)
The Nîmes club announced on Wednesday the postponement of its Ligue 1 match against Lorient, scheduled for Sunday, "due to a large number of cases of Covid-19 in the Breton workforce".
"The competitions commission of the LFP (Professional Football League, editor's note) postpones the meeting (...) to a later date," said the Gard club on its Twitter account.
The match was scheduled for Sunday at 3:00 p.m., on behalf of the 21st day of Ligue 1.
This is the second postponement in L1 in 2021, Lorient-Dijon, scheduled for last weekend, having already been deprogrammed by the LFP on Friday.
The Breton club finds itself last in the standings with this game late, and soon therefore two games late.
At that time, twelve players from the Breton club were positive for the RT-PCR test, including eleven of the thirty members of the professional group.
In accordance with the medical protocol decreed at the beginning of September by the League, the postponement of a meeting is considered if one of the two teams cannot present at least twenty players tested negative on an initial list of thirty.
The pandemic threatens again Ligue 1. "Many cases" of Covid-19 had been declared in the workforce of Saint-Étienne last week, according to the club, which did not specify their number, without however causing the postponement of the match against Strasbourg, ultimately lost 1-0 by the Greens.
A case of Covid-19 was also detected at the Nantes training center among young people who participated in a friendly match against their Lorient counterparts.
Lorient-Dijon was the first match postponed due to the pandemic since Marseille-Nice on Matchday 11, a decision dating from November 17.
The meeting has been rescheduled for February 17.
OM receives Lens on Wednesday evening in the match of the 9th day, postponed at the end of October due to the cases of Covid affecting the blood and gold workforce.
Finally side stars the coach of Paris SG, Mauricio Pochettino, has been in isolation since his positive test on Friday.
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