At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, after the Carrington base was closed for 24 hours, the players were allowed to enter normally, and those who determined to be positive for the new crown were sent home for quarantine.
2 British media photographed 17 first-team players who returned to Carrington base for training and made a list, including C Ronaldo, De Gea, Varane and others.
The 34 players who participated in Manchester United's 1-0 win over Norwich were infected with the new crown, and after comparison, these may include Maguire and Sancho.
4 Although United's first team stopped training on Tuesday, there are still more than 130 players in the Carrington Centre, and Manchester United actually held a Christmas dinner for them.
5 Manchester United's opponents on Saturday, Brighton, also had players infected with the new crown, but their match against Wolves went on as scheduled, and the Seagulls eventually lost 1-0.
Manchester United's Carrington training ground reopened to the first team on Wednesday, but the club did not welcome good news as more positives appeared in the new round of covid-19 testing.
According to the British "Daily Mail", Manchester United has so far found 19 cases of positive COVID-19 among players and staff! The authoritative BBC also confirmed the fact that Manchester United's coronavirus numbers have increased.
United's Premier League match against Brentford on Tuesday has been postponed, and Saturday's home game against Brighton may not be able to escape the postponement.
At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, after 24 hours of closure in Carrington, the players returned to the training ground, and before entering the base, they had to undergo a flow test and a PCR test in the car, and only if the results were normal were allowed to enter. Some of them were determined to be POSITIVE for COVID-19 and sent home for isolation.
According to the Manchester Evening News, they filmed a total of 17 first-team players returning to Carrington, including Tahith Chong, a Chinese-Dutch winger who returned from a rental club in Birmingham, who joined the Championship due to injury, and coach Ronnick, assistant coach Kierang McKenna and football director John Mertav also came to Carrington.
According to the previous description of the British media: 4 players who participated in Manchester United's 1-0 win over Norwich were detected to be infected with the new crown.
The roster of returning players listed in Man's Evening is: De Gea, Lee Grant; Lindluff, Eric Bai, Varane, Phil Jones, Diogu Dalo, Wan Bissaka, Tres; Fred, McTomine, Bruno Fernandes, Pogba; C Ronaldo, Rashford, Martial, Cavani, Chen Dayi.
Among them, there are exactly four players who start or substitute against Norwich and are not on this list, including Sancho, Maguire, Mason Greenwood and Van de Beek. If you count the non-playing substitutes, then Anthony Erlanga, Luke Shaw, Lingard, Dean Henderson, Andr Heaton are not there. Mata and Nemanja Matic did not make the squad for that match due to illness.
Among them, Maguire and Sancho are suspected of being positive for the new crown, and if true, it may bring a blow to Ronnick's Main Manchester United squad.
Although players can receive high-quality medical care, the new crown will have a huge impact on the physical fitness of players, and Manchester City star De Bruyne confirmed that he still feels the existence of sequelae a month after his recovery.
In Midweek City's 7-0 slaughter of Leeds United, De Bruyne scored twice to play for the first time, but admitted he had not yet returned to his peak form.
"I feel like my body is still adapting, and sometimes I can do two or three sprints and then I feel physically weak." "There's nothing I can do, this year I've had injuries to my face and ankles, I've had COVID-19, and I've been in serious condition for 4 days," De Bruyne said.
United had only limited training sessions on Wednesday, with Lonnick recruiting a number of young players to maintain training numbers. The Premier League also sent staff to ensure the club complied with the league's new rules.
But worryingly, although United's first team stopped training on Tuesday, there are still more than 130 players at the Carrington Centre, including female footballers, under-18 players and under-23 players, who can also train, not only that, Manchester United actually held a Christmas dinner for them.
Manchester United officially confirmed that the club has been in contact with the Premier League to report the results of the new crown test within the team. And there is no doubt that Manchester United's match against Brighton also has a high probability of postponement.
United stressed that it was too early to decide on Saturday's midday match, but sources told the British media that they did not think the problems in the team would improve much by then. United also know that if the game goes on schedule, all the players who are positive for the new crown will certainly not be able to play.
In the middle of the week, Burnley's home game against Watford was also cancelled as the visiting team suffered a new crown attack and there were not enough first-team players to play.
Tottenham boss Conte and Leicester city coach Brendan Rodgers also confirmed that they asked for a postponement of Thursday's game, but the Premier League insisted on continuing. Of those, seven or eight of the Blue Foxes were unable to play due to injuries, but the league was unmoved.
Manchester United's opponent Brighton on Saturday also showed a positive result for the new crown test, but the team's match against Wolves on Wednesday was also asked by the Premier League to go as scheduled, and the Seagulls eventually lost 1-0.