Missing this sunday ten days for the resumption of the Premier, suspended on March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic. English football thus enters its countdown towards the date chosen for the return, June 17, hoping that, as it happened on May 16 with the Bundesliga, everything is ready and the competition can restart behind closed doors and without setbacks.
The teams continue to prepare for the Premier's return, with players, coaches and employees undergoing two coronavirus tests per week. Remember that there was a positive at Tottenham in the last round. In total, in 5,079 tests carried out so far in the 20 clubs of the highest category of English football, distributed in five batches, there have been 13 positives.
Liverpool, studio friendly
English football is pending health and sports issues. On the other hand, after the Premier approved that the teams play friendlies to complete their preparation, also in this sense the protagonists of English football are getting underway. If Arsenal beat Charlton 6-0 on Saturday, Liverpool are also considering playing a friendly, after knowing that their debut will not be until Sunday June 21 in the derby at Everton's home.
The ‘reds’ are 6 points away from proclaiming themselves champions for the first time in 30 years. But there is much more to be decided in this Premier, at whose turn the UK government finally gave the green light, the second country most affected by the pandemic in terms of victims, according to the latest figures 40,465.
It will be then on June 17 when it starts up again. He will do so with 2 games pending: Aston Villa-Sheffield United and Manchester City-Arsenal.
A great novelty will be that the coaches will be able to make 5 changes to try to minimize injuries after the suspension of the tournament for more than 3 months due to the health situation.
Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer, coach of Manchester United, appreciated yesterday that “being able to make 5 substitutions will help us for rotations, to dose the players, in the current circumstances it will be very important”.
Artificial ambient sound
The latest news was that this Saturday the fans knew that when it came to watching the Premier matches on television, there would be an option to follow them with an artificial ambient sound so as not to notice that there was no public.