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The Champions League play-off match planned for Tuesday by soccer champions Red Bull Salzburg at Maccabi Tel Aviv is currently anything but certain. According to media reports, Maccabi has had 13 coronavirus cases, but the Red Bull team is still flying to Israel in time.
According to Israeli media reports, a total of six players and seven Maccabi Tel Aviv supervisors tested positive for the corona virus on Sunday. One of the players had already tested positive on Thursday immediately after the third-round match with Dinamo Brest. Despite the large number of infected people, the team received permission from the Israeli Ministry of Health to continue their training.
Red Bull Salzburg currently assumes the game will be played on Tuesday and will fly to Israel on Monday morning, as planned, says sporting director Christoph Freund.
Freund: the most important things are health and safety
“We learned about the 13 positive cases of coronavirus in Maccabi Tel Aviv last night, and now we are in a lively exchange with UEFA and those responsible for Maccabi. We’re going to go ahead with our plan as it basically says. We will see what happens in the next few hours. The most important thing is the health and safety that is guaranteed. We will decide everything else in a sporting way. “
More tests will take place at Maccabi on Monday and Tuesday. According to UEFA regulations, a team must have 13 players who tested negative in order to play in a European Cup match.
