Galatasaray has received bad news following the latest round of tests for the corona virus. Two positive cases emerged within the selection. The two players affected will not travel with Galatasaray to Eindhoven, where the club will play against PSV on Wednesday in the second preliminary round of the Champions League.
For privacy reasons, the Turkish superpower does not report which two players are involved. With Ryan Babel and Ömer Bayram, two football players with a Dutch passport are under contract with Galatasaray. The club announces on its own website that the relevant players have been quarantined and that the club has put all protocols into effect.
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The match between PSV and Galatasaray starts on Wednesday evening at 9 p.m. in the Philips Stadium. The return match in Istanbul follows six days later. For the first time, away goals in a tie after two games will not count double, as UEFA recently decided to abolish the scheme.
Galatasaray has in any case a messy preparation in the run-up to the diptych with PSV. The team of Fatih Terim was supposed to practice against Olympiacos this week in the run-up to the meeting with the Eindhoven team, but has returned to Istanbul with nothing done. The reason was hassle about a PCR test at Athens airport. On the website, the Turkish club even wrote about ‘violating human rights’. “Despite the fact that our coach Fatih Terim and some of our players behaved constructively and took the necessary measures, they were treated in an extremely inappropriate and even arrogant way,” it read.
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