LaLiga will have to get used to cases like that of Real Sociedad-Granada of this past weekend. Affected by the coronavirus, the Andalusian team, between positives and close contacts, could not present more than seven players from the first team and ended up committing an improper alignment, although it did not matter because, although their youth and team players showed their faces, Real Sociedad took the victory.
It is not a situation that takes anyone by surprise. Spain has once again gone to more in the cases of coronavirus and football is a good demonstration of what is happening throughout society. Although elite athletes, COVID makes no difference, and there are already many footballers who since the beginning of this season have had to go through this situation.
In fact, counting from September 12, the weekend in which the first game was played, more than half of LaLiga teams have had at least one case of coronavirus within their squad. Without going any further, the Real society, solo leader, debuted against Valladolid without David Silva and Willian José for that reason, and they recovered Mikel Oyarzabal on the horn. Since that date, thirteen of the twenty clubs that make up the highest category of Spanish football have not been able to avoid contagion.
Among those who take the cake is even the Real Madrid. Eder Militao was the first and this past week Eden Hazard Y Casemiro they were the last to test positive. However, the one that has given the most positive has obviously been the Pomegranate, in which you have been affected Maxime Gonalons, Antonio Puertas, Jesús Vallejo and Roberto Soldado. The Seville, meanwhile, has had two cases since the date (Nemanja Gudelj and Jules Koundé), the same as the Athletic (Yuri Berchiche and Óscar de Marcos).
The list of those affected is completed Deportivo Alavés (Burgui), Atlético de Madrid (Jose María Giménez), Celta (Joseph Aidoo), Huesca (Mikel Rico), Levante (Roger Martí), Osasuna (Ante Budimir), Valladolid (Jordi Masip) and Villarreal (Sofian Chakla).
BARÇA AND OTHER SIX CLUBS ARE SAVED FOR NOW
At the moment, there are seven lucky people who in these two months have managed to avoid the coronavirus. One of them the Barça, which had Pjanic and Umtiti as affected in the preseason but has not prevented them from missing any game. A case similar to that of Valencia, where Carlos Soler and Kondogbia, now at Atlético, also spent the month of August.
Curious is the case of Betis. Despite not having had any positives beyond those of Nabil Feir, Loren Moron and Willian Carvalho, he has had the case of Martín Montoya, who due to being close contact has had to lose three games this season, and that of Víctor Ruiz , which tested false positive. The rest of the list is completed Cádiz, Eibar, Elche and Getafe.