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The Danish Football Association has decided to send home Hoffenheim player Robert Skov and a Danish staff member from the current national team meeting, as they both tested positive for COVID-19.
None of them have shown any symptoms, but as a safety measure, the Danish league has now chosen to isolate eight players, as well as league captain Kasper Hjulmand and his assistant coach Morten Wieghorst.
– That is our assessment that the infection did not occur during harvesting and that we have detected it early to better manage the process. All other tests are negative and we will retest. After dialogue with the health authorities, we have decided on a precautionary principle and will isolate several people who have been in possible close contact with the two infected people, says the doctor of the national team Morten Boesen on the Federation website Danish Soccer.
None of the isolated will attend Wednesday’s international game against Sweden. The players who miss the training match are Frederik Rønnow, Yussuf Poulsen, Rasmus Falk Jensen, Pione Sisto, Anders Dreyer, Erik Sviatchenko, Alexander Scholz and Martin Braithwaite.
This means that It will be an extremely decimated Danish team with 15 players absent who will face Sweden at the Brøndby Stadium. It is already clear that seven Danish players with club affiliation in the UK (Kasper Schmeichel, Jonas Lössl, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Mathias Jensen, Henrik Dalsgaard, Andreas Christensen and Jannik Vestergaard) will not play. This is due to the country’s new restrictions, which means that people returning from Denmark must be quarantined for two weeks.
– We live in a time when many workplaces, including club teams and national teams in the world of football, are affected by corona infection. It’s a shame for the team and especially for the two infected. We want to take care of each other as much as possible and follow the precautionary principle recommended by the authorities, says the captain of the national team Kasper Hjulmand and continues:
– we will arrive later today to get players to play the training match against Sweden. So we hope that many of the other players are back for the games against Iceland and Belgium (in the Nations League). Whatever happens, we will do our best to build a strong team and deliver a solid performance against the Swedes.
Due to restrictions in the UK, Sweden will also have to do without five players (Victor Nilsson Lindelöf, Filip Helander, Robin Olsen, Ken Sema and Emil Krafth) and it is already clear that Sweden will also be left without the captain of the national team. as Janne Andersson isolated herself as a relative of her family tested positive for COVID-19.
Denmark – Sweden will be played on Wednesday at 7.30pm.
