Nelson Semedo did not work this Thursday with the group. But the reason was not a muscle problem or an injury – last Saturday he did not exercise due to discomfort in the cartilage of his right knee – but because he skipped the safety protocol established by LaLiga. And is that the right back was last Monday in a restaurant to celebrate a birthday where all the safety rules that set the protocol of phase 1 were broken: The safety distance was not kept at any time and about twenty people gathered, when the allowed limit was fifteen.
The club's reaction to this situation was immediate: the player has been removed from the group. You will not be reinstated until PCR tests confirm that you are negative for the coronavirus. In principle, the club expects to know tomorrow the results of the test that was carried out this Thursday. If Semedo gives negative, he would return to the group and could even enter the call for the match against Mallorca.
Likewise, it is not ruled out that the player receives an exemplary sanction from the club since this situation falls within very serious offenses by skipping the safety rules and putting the rest of his teammates at risk: the birthday was celebrated on Monday, but Semedo exercised with his companions the following two days, so the evil has already been done if it finally turns out that the defense is infected.
Semedo thus joins the list of players who have broken the strict security protocol established by LaLiga in preventing the covid 19. The first were four Sevilla players who spread a barbecue in a garden and last weekend was the striker for Real Madrid, Luka Jovic, who skipped protocol at a meal at his home, accompanied by Getafe players, Maksimovic, and Atlético de Madrid, Saponjic.