Alianza Lima suspends training due to COVID-19 outbreak in its workforce

Ten Alianza Lima footballers are isolated after having tested positive for COVID-19 because of a outbreak detected in the locker room of the blue and white team.

Between the quarantined players There are the Colombian Arley Rodríguez and the Peruvians Ricardo Lagos, Miguel Cornejo, Javier Navea, Axel Moyano, Carlos Montoya, José Gallardo, Sebastián Gonzales Zela, Eric Canales and Óscar Pintos.

This situation has forced the team to suspend training, who was preparing to dispute the next November 21 the first leg of the national league final in front of Sporting Cristal.

The The rest of the team will undergo new tests to detect possible new infections and prevent the outbreak from spreading to other members of the campus.

Despite the considerable number of indisposed players, the Lima team led by Argentine Carlos Bustos will have enough time in principle to recover all those affected.

Alianza Lima is the winner of the second stage of the Peruvian league, which gave him not only qualification for the final against Sporting Cristal, but also a direct place for the group stage of the next Copa Libertadores.

The final will be a reissue of the one starred by both teams in 2018, when Sporting Cristal beat Alianza Lima 1-4 in the first leg and 3-0 in the second leg.

For Alianza Lima it will be the third national final who disputed in the last four years after having lost to Sporting Cristal in 2018 and to Binacional in 2019.

The blue and white team reached this new final after recovering from the fateful last season, in which it was relegated to the second division due to an administrative arbitrariness that was corrected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (D)