The suspense has ended: the match of the third day of the Champions League between FC Barcelona and Dinamo Kiev will be playable this Wednesday after testing negative the 13 first-team footballers who are part of the Ukrainian expedition that traveled to Barcelona. A respite, without a doubt, both for UEFA and for the two clubs, since Mircea Lucescu's team came to this match in an extreme situation: with nine casualties due to covid19, which left the team with only 13 first-team chips . The limit that UEFA allows is 13 players from the first team to face a match; In the event that there was one more positive, the match would have had to be suspended due to lack of troops.
Given the health risk that there would be more infected players within the Dinamo expedition, both UEFA and Sanitat reached an agreement to submit this Tuesday morning to a new PCR control to assess the real situation of the Ukrainian team. Fortunately, as announced by the SER, all the players have tested negative, so the game can be played without further setbacks.
Inside the expedition of the Ukrainian team nor did there seem to be much concern about the possibility of any more positive in the squad that forced to suspend the meeting. In fact, just after passing the PCR test, the entire workforce got on a tourist bus for a brief visit to Barcelona.