This is the bad news that has finally been confirmed over the hours. Since Monday, the Reims club had been worried after a player’s PCR test was positive. Several PCR tests on the entire squad and players, but also an antigen test carried out this morning before leaving for Marseille therefore confirmed the verdict: four players in the squad are positive and did not take the airplane. Two staff members are also affected. All other players tested are negative. We can therefore speak of a mini-cluster, even if it remains limited in number.
The club has not communicated the names of the players concerned to preserve medical confidentiality. But a group expanded to 24 names had been broadcast yesterday to anticipate this bad news. Four of them are not from the displacement and were placed in solitary confinement upon the first positive results. Two Pro 2 players, Diakité and Cervantes, came to strengthen the group which therefore left at 22 for Marseille by plane this morning.
The Stade de Reims is therefore in turn affected at the time of finishing his year, like the Girondins de Bordeaux who, yesterday, deplored 14 positive cases and wondered yesterday if the match against Lille tonight was going to be able to be held. . It will take place. As a reminder, the health protocol of the LFP provides that 20 players including a goalkeeper must be available from a list of 30, published at the start of the season. With fewer than 20 players, the match can be postponed. The Stade de Reims will therefore play its match against Olympique de Marseille this evening at the Stade Vélodrome, but it will be greatly reduced.