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another postponement for Grenoble, still hit by the Covid-19

The Niort-Grenoble match, initially scheduled for Saturday (7:00 p.m.) for the 9th day of Ligue 2, is postponed because of too many cases of Covid-19 in the Isère workforce, who must now manage two postponed matches in a row, announced Tuesday the League (LFP).

The national Covid commission of the French Federation has indeed noted “the certain absence of more than 10 players on the list of 30 players” of Grenoble, according to a press release from the LFP, which does not indicate the date of rescheduling of the meet.

This is the second postponed match in a row for the Isérois, after the 8th day meeting against Nancy initially scheduled for Saturday 24 October, still not rescheduled either. Grenoble had 13 players who tested positive at that time.

League medical protocol stipulates that a match can be postponed if a club does not have a minimum of 20 players, including a goalkeeper, tested negative on the list of 30 players declared to the LFP.

This is the third postponement of a match in recent days in the professional championship, after Lens-Nantes in Ligue 1, initially scheduled for Sunday (1:00 p.m.) but postponed due to an avalanche of cases affecting the Blood and Gold workforce. situation which still makes the holding of Marseille-Lens on Friday (9:00 p.m.) uncertain.

Before these three cases, French football had not experienced a postponement since the implementation of the protocol currently in force, at the beginning of September.

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