Corinne Deacon and Eugénie Le Sommer, here in June 2019 during the World Cup in France.

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It took less than half an hour for Jean-Michel Aulas to react to the new list of the Blue, unveiled this Thursday morning by Corinne Deacon.

The presence of Lyonnaises Sakina Karchaoui, Amandine Henry and Eugénie Le Sommer, among the 26 players selected for the two friendlies against England (April 9 in Caen) and the United States (April 13 in Le Havre), does not please hardly to the president of OL.

“All this is not very careful because the Lyon players are contact cases and new cases were declared yesterday.

Not reasonable !

“, Was therefore quick to pester JMA on his Twitter account.

A reaction that is understandable in view of the current cluster in the OL women's team, which announces this Thursday four new positive cases of Covid-19, bringing the number of positive players and staff to ten.

In this context, the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League against PSG, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed to April 17.

Corinne Deacon, which is therefore happening for this gathering of Wendie Renard, Amel Majri and Delphine Cascarino, currently positive for the coronavirus, justified this Thursday her choice to retain their three teammates, who are contact cases: "It is obvious that we will respect the seven-day isolation, which will end next Monday [April 5].

They will of course be able to join us, provided they can present us with a negative PCR test.

As long as they can, there is no reason to wonder or doubt.

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"I'm going to be selfish on this one"

Deacon added that she would not specifically manage the playing time of the Lyon and Parisian players when the latter must meet for the return match of C1, postponed because of Covid, five days after the meeting against the USA.

“I am the coach of the France team.

The problem is that we have two French teams competing in the Champions League, but I'm going to be selfish on this one.

I have two matches to prepare, to play, I will not make a case between the clubs of one or the other.

The important thing for me will be to line up two efficient and competitive teams to go for victory in these two matches ”

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