The advance of COVID-19 in Spain will not prevent the Women's Champions from being played on Spanish soil. UEFA maintains its plans in Bilbao and San Sebastián, chosen to host the final to eight, and will not change its venue, despite the fact that the Basque Country has been in a state of health alert since this Monday. The health situation in the Basque community does not endanger the celebration of the continental tournament, which was already set for dispute without public for the coronavirus. And it will not change the protocols that were going to be executed for the teams and the dispute of the matches.
In this way, everything will remain the same, taking into account that UEFA has prepared this final phase in constant contact with the competent authorities in the Basque Country and in Spain, with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in charge of helping the European body in organizing this atypical Champions League. During the final to eight, to be held from August 21 to 30, the teams will be isolated and will be subject to strict health security protocols. Everything is ready attending to the smallest detail. The objective, to solve the season of this Champions League quickly and safely.
It should be remembered that several Champions teams are being affected by positive cases in their squads. Atlético has suspended their training sessions since last week, after announcing five infected with COVID-19 in the rojiblanco dressing room. There are also affected in the Lyon, in which Lola Gallardo aims to be out of the quarter after testing positive for coronavirus. UEFA's protocol indicates that a team may play if it has at least thirteen players who have tested negative for coronavirus. If there is no goalkeeper among these players, UEFA allows the match to be postponed. Faced with the impossibility of rescheduling the match, the club that cannot play would lose the tie by a result against 3-0.
Spanish classic in the quarterfinals
Atlético and Barça will meet on August 21 (6:00 p.m.) for a place in the semifinals. The azulgrana team, current European runner-up and champion of the Spanish League, is the favorite. All this if the coronavirus is given a truce. In addition to Atlético and Barça, Wolfsburg, Arsenal, PSG, Lyon, Glasgow City and Bayern have qualified for the quarterfinals. The crosses are: Barça-Athletic; Wolfsburg-Glasgow; PSG-Arsenal and Bayern-Lyon. Spain has, through the rojiblanco or azulgrana team, the opportunity to attack for the first time in its history the record of the Women's Champions League.
Spanish women's football achieved its greatest achievement in this competition in the Barça runner-up in the last edition. POr now, the European dominance is the almighty Olympique de Lyon, with six Champions in the last ten years, four in a row. The Spanish team (Atlético or Barça) that go to the semifinals would have Wolfsburg or Glasgow as their rival. In the event that he gets through to the final, these would be his possible rivals, all of whom are in the quarterfinals: Olympique de Lyon, who has been the champion in the last four editions, Arsenal, PSG and Bayern.