Jusuf Gazibegovic started with a positive corona test before the game against Wolfsberg last weekend. A few days later, the test hit star striker Kelvin Yeboah before the European Cup appearance in Spain against Real Sociedad. There was still no corona panic on the black Titanic. It’s different since yesterday – the storm is now right in the middle of Corona hell! While the PCR tests on Friday after the return home from San Sebastian were all negative for the players and coaching staff, things turned out to be sticky on Saturday. Already in the early evening the news was circulating that eight professionals had tested positive. The wires glowed between Sturm’s sports director Andreas Schicker and the Bundesliga because of the alarming Corona situation. The blacks pleaded for the cancellation of the game in Altach because of the massive failures. The flying in of other squad players from Graz was also an issue in the meantime.
Free play for Altach
The Bundesliga regulation states: In the event that a team has fewer than 16 healthy players (14 field players plus two goalkeepers) available on the match day due to Covid-19 diseases, the club can request a postponement. Storm “scratched” this thin player blanket Saturday evening. Whether there will be more cases with the Grazers until kick-off is of course in the stars. The match wobbles seriously. And, if it is played, it would probably be a free game for the Vorarlbergers. Because the hospital at Christian Ilzer’s team is bursting at the seams even without Covid. Hierländer, Kiteishvili, Ingolitsch, Trummer and Mwepu are known to have been out of action for a long time with injuries.