Another Euroleague match is canceled due to coronavirus

This is reported by the Italian journalist Emiliano Carchia. According to him, the Crvena Zvezda team will remain in Belgrade and will not play in the fourth round match in France.

The cause of this situation is once again the coronavirus. On Tuesday night, ASVEL did not play its first match scheduled for this week – the third round match with Panathinaikos of Athens was canceled almost at the last minute. As the club’s representatives told the Greek media, the team learned of the match cancellation already on the bus on the way to the arena.

ASVEL is trying to fight a club-infested coronavirus infection. Yesterday it was announced that the French club cannot even register 8 players for the match, which are mandatory for Euroleague matches.

We remind you that on Wednesday the Euroleague conceded two technical defeats at 0:20 to the Zenit Saint Petersburg team, which for the same reason did not attend the third and fourth day of the Euroleague against Spain at all.

Technical losses based on such logic must also be addressed by ASVEL.

The Euroleague’s decision to punish Zenit has received extremely critical reactions from the team’s players. “It just came to our notice then. We risk our health and we are separated from our families, but we are punished,” Billy Baron wrote on social media. “It just came to our attention then. We are punished for the fact that the players are facing the coronavirus, ”said KC Rivers, who represented Kaunas Žalgiris last season.

Tournament table before the end of 3 rounds (place, team, wins, losses, points won, points lost, point index)

1. Zalgiris Kaunas	3	0	227	206	twenty-one
2. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul	two	0	157	134	2. 3
3. AX Armani Exchange Milan	two	0	157	143	14
4. Zenit Saint Petersburg	two	0	147	139	8
5. Valencia Basket	two	one	224	211	13
6. FC Barcelona	two	one	217	206	eleven
7. FC Bayern Munich	one	one	160	142	18
8. Olympiacos Piraeus	one	one	145	139	6
9. Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	one	one	152	149	3
10. TD Systems Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz	one	one	149	153	-4
11. Panathinaikos OPAP Athens	one	one	149	154	-5
12. CSKA Moscow	one	one	142	148	-6
13. Anadolu Efes Istanbul	one	two	233	225	8
14. Red Star mts Belgrade	one	two	222	225	-3
15. Khimki Moscow region	0	two	146	162	-sixteen
16. LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne	0	two	136	152	-sixteen
17. Real Madrid	0	two	140	169	-29
18. ALBA Berlin	0	3	217	263	-46