Corona: The international match between Switzerland and Ukraine will definitely not take place

The international match between Switzerland and Ukraine will not take place today or tomorrow

Due to more crown cases in the Ukraine team, UEFA canceled Switzerland’s last match in the Nations League. The Lucerne canton doctor had previously ordered quarantine for players and staff from Ukraine. A ski pass victory awaits Switzerland.

The League of Nations match between Switzerland and Ukraine will definitely not take place. Reports of the Swiss Football Association. The Ukrainian team had been quarantined by the Lucerne canton doctor due to several corona cases and is unable to provide a replacement team. The game should have been played in Lucerne at 8.45pm

“It’s a shame. We were ready and motivated to play this final”, says Pierluigi Tami, director of the national teams. Switzerland also agreed to postpone the game for a day until tomorrow, Tami continued. “We really wanted to make a sports decision and not a to be taken next to the field. Now we have to accept how it is. “

Ukrainians in the crown trap

Four players tested positive before Ukraine’s 3-1 defeat in Germany on Saturday. Three more cases were known on Monday, and on Tuesday the tests of Ruslan Malinowski, Junior Moraes and Sergei Krywzow came back positive. With so many positive tests, “it is possible that the currently negative people will turn positive over the course of the week,” said Lucerne canton doctor Roger Harstall, justifying the quarantine measure for the entire Ukrainian delegation.

The stakes were high for Switzerland: They would have needed a victory to avoid being relegated from the top flight of the Nations League.

Now Switzerland can expect a 3-0 forfait victory, provided that the UFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee concludes that the Ukrainians are responsible for the rejection. If UEFA does not blame anyone, the result will be obtained: 1-0, 0-1 or 0-0. “It would be difficult for me to accept a decision by lottery. I await a decision in our favor. We were ready to play the game. We did our job well and presented a team that only gave negative tests, ”said Tami.

European Cup as a prejudice?

The possibility of a third option, a postponement to winter or spring, is negligible. Tami: “The time slots for the national teams are full. That’s practically impossible. “In March, at the next meeting of the national teams, three World Cup qualifying matches are scheduled in seven days.

Rather, it makes sense to expect a ski pass victory for Switzerland. At least if what UEFA has already decided this season is considered a precedent. In qualifying for the Champions League and Europa League, three games could not be played because one team was quarantined by local authorities for crown cases. In each of these cases, UEFA ruled these clubs 3-0 against; Among them was Slovan Bratislava, who would have played the Young Boys in the next round. YB later met Klaksvik from the Faroe Islands.

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Are the Ukrainians playing?

According to UEFA regulations, which were hastily drawn up this summer due to Corona’s special situation, a club or association must compete if it has 13 players (including a goalkeeper) at its disposal. The Ukrainians reportedly rejected the idea of ​​flying into international youth matches or national league players later in the afternoon and informed UEFA that it would not be possible to line up a team, not even on Wednesday.

The SFV was also in contact with the Ukrainian association. The Ukrainians “had not seriously considered” the solution of summoning a replacement team, Tami said. They suspect that there is a strategy behind this in the Swiss Association. That the Ukrainians are pressing the ball due to the officially ordered quarantine of the Swiss. It is foreseeable that the lawyers will now fight for the position in League A. “The game is decided on a different level,” says Tami. But he hopes “we have a decision in a few days or weeks.” (ram / sda)