Leicester and Tottenham match postponed due to Corona
The meeting, which was scheduled today between Leicester City and its guest Tottenham in the seventeenth stage of the English Football League, joined the list of matches postponed due to infections with the Corona virus, according to what was announced by the first. "Leicester City can confirm that the Premier League board has decided to postpone Thursday evening's match against Tottenham," he said in a statement. in the first team squad.
He revealed that "as a result, the club no longer has a sufficient number of first-team players to play this match."
Thursday evening's match has become the fourth so far that has been postponed due to the new outbreak in the ranks of English clubs, after Brighton-Tottenham, which was scheduled for Sunday, Brentford-Manchester United and Burnley and Watford, which were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
Before deciding to postpone the Leicester-Tottenham match, the Danish coach of Brentford Thomas Frank called today to postpone the eighteenth stage scheduled for the entire weekend, in order to allow the clubs to deal with the emergency health situation.
Britain began recording very high numbers of corona infections as a result of the Omicron mutant that spreads faster than the Delta mutant, and the number of positive cases on Wednesday reached 78,610 people who were confirmed to have been infected in the laboratory, with experts expecting these numbers to rise significantly in the next few days.
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