Friday’s game between Torino and Sassuolo has officially been postponed because of the COVID outbreak within the Granata. The League announced that it will be played on March 17th at 3 pm. A decision about Tuesday’s match versus Lazio will instead be made early next week depending on how the situation develops.
The club has announced seven cases in the squad, plus two staffers, but without disclosing the names. Repubblica reported that Andrea Belotti, Bremer, Wilfried Singo, Daniele Baselli, Alessandro Buongiorno, Karol Linetty and Nicola Murru and doctor Daniele Mozzone tested positive. The team facility has been shut down and every team member has been isolating at home since Monday.
Despite that, there is still a chance Tuesday’s match versus Lazio takes place if there are no more cases in the next couple of days. On a positive note, all the swabs at Cagliari returned negative following last Friday’s bout.
Torino-Sassuolo is only third COVID-induced postponement of the season after Genoa-Torino and the controversial one of Juventus-Napoli. Since the call was imposed by the local health officials, the Granata preserve the ability of asking to move another fixture in case three more footballers get infected as the threshold has been set at 10.
They are not the only team dealing with COVID as Inter announced today that executives Giuseppe Marotta, Piero Ausilio, Alessandro Antonello and Angelo Capellini, alongside an unnamed assistant, have contracted Coronavirus. The whole management and the squad will enter the bubble and follow the procedures laid out by the protocol.