Bologna, Udinese and Torino, after the Salernitana on Tuesday, announced that they were the subject of health measures after grouped cases of Covid-19 in their workforce, which compromises the holding of several matches this week in Italy.
Bologna, eight positive players, announced Wednesday evening that the players “will not be able to participate in official sporting events for at least five days”. The club therefore requests the postponement of its two matches against Inter Milan on Thursday, then in Cagliari on Sunday.
Udinese, nine positive players, has officially requested the postponement of its matches Thursday against Fiorentina and Sunday against Atalanta, after quarantine and health surveillance measures targeting its players.
Torino, six positive players, told him that “the whole group” had been placed in “home quarantine” for five days, which means that the Garnets will not be able to meet Atalanta Thursday in Bergamo nor Fiorentina. Sunday. Tuesday, the Salernitana, nine cases, had already requested the postponement of its match against Venice, scheduled for Thursday.
Sports justice decides
“It’s a difficult situation. With the cases of Covid, the injured and the African Cup of Nations, twelve players are missing, ”said Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, before the officialization of health measures on Wednesday.
Until this week, only one meeting of the 2021-22 season could not take place in Serie A, at the end of December, between Udinese and Salernitana.
Faithful to its policy of last season, the Italian League had not postponed the meeting beforehand, leaving the Udinese players and the referees to note on the field the withdrawal of the opponent, who remained in Campania on instructions from the authorities. sanitary facilities. It will thus be up to sporting justice to inflict a defeat on the green carpet at Salernitana or possibly to announce a new date for this undisputed match.
It should be the same Thursday for the four meetings which should not take place, following the decisions of the health authorities: the League confirmed Wednesday evening to AFP that the program of the 20th day remained unchanged.
Atalanta, the intended host of Torino, has however already warned its supporters that its stadium will not be open to the public. Naples, whose trip to the Juventus field was also uncertain after cases of Covid-19, on the other hand received the green light to make the trip.
But three Neapolitan players learned upon arriving in Turin that they could not be lined up because they had not received the third dose of the vaccine, according to Italian media.