Five Lorient players tested positive for covid-19 and were placed in isolation, the Ligue 1 club reported on Wednesday.
“They tested positive for covid on Tuesday,” team coach Christophe Pelissier told reporters, without specifying the players’ identities.
This Wednesday, only 19 players trained. Vincent Le Goff, Thomas Monconduit, Adrian Grbic, Enzo Le Fée, Teddy Bartouche-Selbonne, Thomas Fontaine and Loris Mouyokolo were left out, which supposes that the five cases could be among the latter.
Players with a positive result will be isolated for at least seven days, when Lorient’s next game will be in Lille on January 8th.
Ligue 1 is on hiatus, but most clubs return to training on 28 or 29 December, ahead of the French Cup round of 16, 2-4 January.
The return after the holiday season can lead to a wave of positive cases and the impossibility of playing by some teams.
The example of English football, whose ‘Boxing Day’ had three games suspended and whose championship is again being shaken by covid-19, could make the worst to be feared.
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