In the wake of his club’s press release on Thursday afternoon asking for the postponement of the match against ASSE, Xavier Thuilot, director general of the SCO, confirmed that in view of the very large number of cases of Covid-19 which hit his team , the meeting cannot be held on January 9.
“We already know that we won’t be there explains the former director general of ASSE today in Angers. You can imagine that with 19 cases today we will not have 20 players out of 30 on the day of the match (according to the latest medical protocol of the LFP, a team is authorized to play as long as it has at least 20 players, including a goalkeeper). It is a stupid application of the protocol planning which allows us to say from today that we will not be able to present the famous 20 players of the protocol for this match.“.
The postponement of the match requested today is therefore only a means according to Xavier Thuilot to save everyone’s time: “We have sent the results of the PCR tests to the Professional Football League and the decision to postpone should fall in the evening or tomorrow.“.