The quarter-final of the Champions League between Leipzig and Atlético Madrid is “scheduled as planned” Thursday, AFP learned from UEFA on Monday, despite positive Covid-19 tests concerning two players from the Spanish club, Sime Vrsaljko and Angel Correa. The two men are placed in isolation and will not make the trip to Portugal for the Final 8 of the Champions League. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 9:00 p.m. Lisbon.
Atlético said in a statement on Sunday that after tests carried out on Saturday, “two positive cases (...) which are confined to their respective homes and whose names were immediately communicated to the Spanish and Portuguese health authorities at the 'UEFA, the Spanish Federation, the Portuguese Federation and the Spanish Superior Sports Council. The tests carried out on Sunday did not reveal, however, any new cases.
Interrupted by the pandemic, the Champions League, which resumed Friday and Saturday with the round of 16 second leg that could not be played before confinement, must know its outcome during a "Final 8" unpublished and condensed, organized in Lisbon from August 12 to 23.
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