Five FC Lorient players tested positive for Covid-19 and placed in solitary confinement, while training resumed on Wednesday, December 29.
“They tested positive for covid on Tuesday”, Lorient coach Christophe Pélissier told the press, at the end of training which was held on the lawn of Espace FCL, in Ploemeur (Morbihan). He did not specify the identity of the players concerned, citing medical confidentiality.
Wednesday morning, only 19 players were present in training. Vincent Le Goff, Thomas Monconduit, Adrian Grbic, Enzo Le Fée, Teddy Bartouche-Selbonne, Thomas Fontaine and Loris Mouyokolo, were missing, noted an AFP correspondent. The five cases of Covid-19 could be on this list.
The players who tested positive were placed in solitary confinement for at least seven days, while the next match of the Merlus, 19th in L1, will take place in Lille on Saturday, January 8, for the resumption of the French championship. In January 2021, the Morbihan club had recorded an outbreak of positive cases, more than twenty in its workforce.
Christophe Pélissier also indicated that FC Lorient, eliminated from the Coupe de France, will not play a friendly match on Sunday January 2, as it had initially been envisaged. The club will not do an internship in Belgium before the match in Lille, for health reasons.
According to the latest health protocol of the LFP, a match can be postponed if a club is not able to field 20 able players including a goalkeeper, registered on the official list of 30 players declared on the morning of the match.
The example of English football, whose Boxing Day was cut this weekend by three matches and which is starting to be deeply disturbed again by the Covid, can make you fear the worst.