Manchester United Suffer COVID Outbreak

Manchester United has suffered an outbreak of COVID-19 among players and staff on Sunday, jeopardizing their next Premier League game against Brentford.

 According to The Athletic, a small number of players and staff had returned positive lateral flow tests on Sunday morning and were sent home before the team’s training session, with the Premier League notified about the situation. The report also said that the group that traveled to Norwich had returned negative results before Saturday’s game.

Ronaldo won and converted the second-half penalty kick that gave Rangnick a second successive league victory since he replaced the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

 Brighton & Hove Albion’s home game against Tottenham Hotspur, which was to be played on Sunday, was called off due to a number of COVID-19 cases at Tottenham last week.

Aston Villa also had one positive COVID case on Sunday, which meant that an indoor recovery session was canceled as a precaution rather than having members of the squad recovering inside the training complex at Bodymoor Heath.

The new variant is spreading like wildfire and many teams across Europe are suffering because of it. The German Football Association was the first amongst the Top-5 leagues to start playing matches behind closed doors due to health and safety concerns. Others leagues might follow them from next month as the situation could get even worse.