-
keystone-sda.ch
![Slovan Bratislava is not allowed to play in the Faroe Islands because there are Corona cases in the team.]()
1/7
Slovan Bratislava is not allowed to play in the Faroe Islands because there are Corona cases in the team.
—-
Martin Meienberger/freshfocus
![Five minutes before kick-off, the game at the Svangaskard stadium is canceled.]()
2/7
Five minutes before kick-off, the game at the Svangaskard stadium is canceled.
—-
keystone-sda.ch
![So Klaksvik will probably be the YB opponent in the second qualifying round.]()
3/7
So Klaksvik will probably be the YB opponent in the second qualifying round.
—-
Martin Meienberger/freshfocus
![In 2019 Klaksvik played with Lucerne against a Swiss opponent.]()
7/7
In 2019 Klaksvik played with Lucerne against a Swiss opponent.
—-
—-
The story is this: There are two positive corona cases in the ranks of Slovan: Midfielder Vladimir Weiss and the physiotherapist tested positive for Covid-19. You are not flying to the Faroe Islands for the first qualifying round match. There the team will be tested again. And a member of the staff gets stuck. But by the time the Slovaks know this, they have long been in their hotel in Torshavn – and should have left it before the test results are available. The Scandinavians complain that the Uefa protocol has been broken. And demand quarantine or immediate return from Slovan. And a forfait win.
–
Uefa, meanwhile, is postponing the matter by 48 hours and giving Slovan the opportunity to add to his squad because the players are now in the quarantine imposed by the local health authorities. The Slovaks let supplementary and junior players fly in, and at the end of the day 18 players report a negative test. They are being tested again on the sheep islands. One player is positive. On Thursday and also on Friday. The Slovak delegation will get the result shortly before the kickoff. The Klaksvik players are already warming up. Not that of Slovan, because the local authorities are now also imposing the quarantine on the second delegation. The game will be canceled minutes before kickoff. What now?
–
Black Peter on the team with corona cases
Uefa made it easy for itself in their protocol. In the end, when the last possible date to which the game can be postponed has passed (in this case it was Friday), the buck has to be borne by the team in whose ranks the corona cases occurred. Just because. It doesn’t matter whether it was at fault or not. That would have been the case if the Slovan players had actually left the hotel before the test results became known, as the Faroese have claimed. But that the game was rescheduled did not indicate that.
–
In any case, in the case of the final match of the pre-qualification tournament in Nyon between KF Drita from Kosovo and Linfield from Northern Ireland, Uefa decided that way. The game, which should have started on August 11th, was canceled without further ado and Linfield was declared the forfait winner despite all Kosovar protests and legal objections. The European association will probably use the same simple scheme for the game between Klaksvik and Slovan. The Slovaks will be able to “deafen” as long as they want. In any case, you have already filed a complaint.
–
And with that, the Scandinavians (including local health authorities) would have achieved what they were striving for with a certain amount of emphasis, at least that’s how it appeared from the outside. As a reminder: There were also two corona cases in the ranks of Atletico Madrid in the run-up to the Champions League quarter-finals against Leipzig. The game rose anyway. It’s clear. In the Lisbon bubble of the glamorous premier class finals, profane forfait outs are not allowed. In the anonymity of the pre-qualification and in the first qualifying round.
–
Slovan general manager Ivan Kmotrik Jr. assures that everything humanly possible was done to be able to play: “There was intensive communication between Slovan and Uefa. We made every effort to make the game possible. We met all the requirements of the Uefa protocol and had enough players with negative tests ready to play. In the end, Uefa officially canceled the game. Both Slovan expeditions are now flying back to Slovakia. “
–
In 2019, Klaksvik was Lucerne’s opponent
Good for YB: With Klaksvik, the number 320 in the Uefa rankings is now coming to Bern – and not the 161. The team from the Schafsinseln, which consists mainly of semi-professionals, was in 2019 even for FC Luzern, which is also one of the dwarfs in Europe weak enough: With two 1-0 victories, Central Switzerland prevailed against the Faroese in the second round of the Europa League qualification. YB shouldn’t miss anything, even if the artificial turf advantage is lost for once, because artificial turf is also played on in Klaksvik.
–
And: The game on Wednesday can increase, even if the Faroe Islands have been on the Swiss list of countries with mandatory quarantine upon entry since last Thursday. YB explains why: “The ordinance on measures to combat the coronavirus in the area of international passenger traffic stipulates that people are exempt from the quarantine obligation if they travel to Switzerland for professional reasons on an urgent date and no longer than stay five days. “
–
So the venue will be Wankdorf and not a neutral third country like Poland, Hungary, Cyprus or … Greece (really?), As the Uefa intends in such cases. The Uefa disciplinary body will make a final decision on Monday.
–
So YB comes to the millionsYB’s path to the Champions League leads via the so-called Champions Path, which begins in the second qualifying round. That means: The Bernese do not meet teams from the big countries whose masters qualify directly for the group stage, but only masters from countries from 11th place onwards. So the champions of the top five leagues Spain, England, Italy, Germany and France are excluded – as are those of Russia, Portugal, Belgium, Ukraine, Turkey and Holland.
The highest endowed champions are those from Austria, the Czech Republic and Greece etc. In the second round, the opponent of YB is either Klaksvik from the Faroe Islands (most likely) or Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia).
In the third round, which will only be decided in a single game on September 15 or 16, the possible opponents for the YB that is still seeded are: Karabach (Azerbaijan), Maccabi Tel-Aviv (Israel), Legia Warsaw ( Poland), Molde FK (Norway) and FK Sarajewo (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The home right is drawn by lot. The loser comes to the Europa League playoffs.
The last hurdle awaits in the playoffs, which will be played in a classic style with a return leg on 22./23. resp. 29./30. September will be held. YB would be unset. If all seeded teams prevail by then, the likely opponents are Salzburg, Piraeus, Celtic or Dinamo Zagreb. The loser goes to the Europa League group stage.
All games take place to the exclusion of fans.—-
Related posts:
The fans of the Puskás Arena were videotaped, they are a couple of peopleDue to the pandemic, Botafogo 'wins' another two-year concession from Nilton Santos; new deal will ...Saúl Ñíguez reveals the mystery of his new club: Costa CityConcacaf: Pumas beat Cruz Azul 2-1 in the first leg of the semifinalRelated
