After Messi, another blow for Pochettino before Lyon
With what squad will PSG appear against OL next Sunday? After Lionel Messi, the news is linked.
Donnarumma has tested positive for Covid!
Before their round of 16 in the Coupe de France (4-0), Paris Saint-Germain announced on Sunday that their Argentinian striker Lionel Messi and four of his teammates have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Argentinian star was tested in his country, where he spent a week’s vacation with his family, in his hometown of Rosario.
“He is in constant contact with our medical service. When it is negative, he will be able to return to France “, said his trainer Mauricio Pochettino at a press conference before adding: ” I dont know “ if he will be able to play the shock of Ligue 1 in Lyon on Sunday January 9. In the aftermath of this bad news, the capital club still has to face another case of Covid in its ranks.
Indeed, PSG confirmed on Tuesday that its Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma “Has tested positive for Covid-19. He was placed in solitary confinement and is subject to the appropriate health protocol. “And the Paris SG is not yet at the end of its troubles.
Other cases of Covid to come to PSG?
After Lionel Messi, Sergio Rico, Danilo Perreira and the young midfielder Nathan Bitumazala, it is the turn of Gianluigi Donnarumma being struck by the Corona virus. Holder Monday Tuesday evening in Vannes, on the occasion of the 16th finals of the Coupe de France, the 22-year-old Italian international was therefore placed in solitary confinement, but given his proximity to his teammates in recent days, the journalist Loïc Tanzi from RMC Sport indicates that “Other cases are to be deplored in the workforce of PSG. “
On the other hand, “The tests carried out by Juan Bernat yesterday and today are negative. He will resume training tomorrow “, specifies the club of the capital on its social networks. Mauricio Pochettino could therefore end up with a workforce completely decimated before the shock of the 20th day of Ligue 1 against Olympique Lyonnais next Sunday at Groupama Stadium.