UEFA penalizes Norway with a loss for absent

The UEFA Appeals Committee has determined give up Norway, 0-3, the game that was supposed to play against Romania, in the League of Nations, and that was suspended in his day to the inability to travel the Norwegian team to Romanian lands, because of the positive for coronavirus suffered in her breast.

“The 2020/21 UEFA Nations League match between Romania and Norway, which was scheduled to be played on November 15, 2020, is declared as lost to the Norwegian Football Federation (which is therefore considered to have lost the match 3-0) for being responsible for the match not taking place (according to the provisions of Circular No. 66/2020 that establishes the special rules applicable to the league phase of the League of Nations 2020/21) “, is included in a statement issued this Wednesday by the highest European football organization.

The match was from the fifth, and penultimate, round of League B, Group 1, and should have been played in Bucharest, the aforementioned November 15.

A group that, according to the UEFA decision, sees Austria at the top of the group, with 12 points; followed by Norway, with 9; Romania, with 7; and Northern Ireland, with 1. Precisely, this Thursday, Austrians and Norwegians play in Vienna, a decisive duel.