The match between Fenerbahçe and Real Madrid has been postponed due to the coronavirus. The situation has finally become untenable and the whites will not be able to play against the Turkish team after adding the following positives: Fabien Causeur, Thomas Heurtel, Adam Hanga, Guerschon Yabusele, Vincent Poirer, Juan Núñez, Sergio Llull, Jeffery Taylor and Anthony Randolph. Not counting the coach, Pablo Laso, still confined. In theory, both Heurtel and Laso would have completed the 14-day quarantine required by the Euroleague, but the whites would only have 5 first-team players even with Heurtel back: in addition to the French, only Nigel Williams-Goss, Tristan Vukcevic, Edy Tavares as sole center and Rudy Fernández would be available.
As announced by the Euroleague, it has been the white team that has requested the suspension not having the 8 players required by the highest continental competition to play the match. The duel was going to be played without Jan Vesely and Nando de Colo, injured, but with a surge of positives from the white team, which already played the match against CSKA Moscow with three homegrown players and got an unexpected victory. After this meeting, both Rudy Fernández and Sergio Llull, now positive, They assured that the conditions to play this match were not ideal.
The Euroleague, in its statement, recalled the following: “Following the Special Regulation due to COVID-19, approved by the Executive Board of Shareholders of ECA, each game can be rescheduled up to three times, if dates are available. Euroleague Basketball will coordinate with both teams the best options to reschedule the game. Alternative dates will be announced on the official Euroleague Basketball platforms once confirmed“. The new dates are expected, which will be the first rescheduling of the game. Real Madrid play against Barcelona on Sunday 2nd, an encounter that is also in danger if the string of positives for coronavirus continues to increase.
