5 Man City gamers isolating after contracting COVID-19

Five Manchester City gamers are persevering with to isolate and gained’t be obtainable for the sport in opposition to Chelsea after contracting the coronavirus, supervisor Pep Guardiola mentioned Friday.Ahead of Sunday’s journey to Stamford Bridge, City has returned to coaching after the virus outbreak led to the postponement of Monday’s Premier League match in opposition to Everton.The membership has solely recognized ahead Gabriel Jesus and defender Kyle Walker as having contracted COVID-19.Chelsea supervisor Frank Lampard mentioned Friday that there have been a “couple” of optimistic circumstances among the many membership’s employees however gamers weren’t contaminated.The Premier League has mentioned it has no plans to droop the competitors regardless of rising infections nationally brought on by a extra transmissible variant of COVID-19.Tottenham supervisor Jose Mourinho is sad with the league, criticizing the late resolution to postpone the match in opposition to Fulham round three hours earlier than Wednesday’s 6 p.m. kickoff after a coronavirus outbreak at its London rival.“I felt (it was) unprofessional, but that is the way it was,” Mourinho mentioned Friday.“We were preparing ourselves for that match and of course we didn’t play and that is disruptive of what is a week of work.“Training sessions before that would be different if we were going to play that game. People say good for me that there was no game, but only good for me if I knew there was no game.” Tottenham hosts Leeds on Saturday.