Igli Tare confirms Ciro Immobile, Thomas Strakosha and Lucas Leiva ‘tested negative half-an-hour after’ the UEFA COVID-19 positive results, but they’re still ruled out of Lazio’s squad with Zenit.
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Igli Tare confirms Ciro Immobile, Thomas Strakosha and Lucas Leiva ‘tested negative half-an-hour after’ the UEFA COVID-19 positive results, but they’re still ruled out of Lazio’s squad with Zenit.
It kicks off at 17.55 GMT, click here for the line-ups and LIVEBLOG.
The build-up to this game has been dominated once again by COVID-19 tests, as Immobile, Leiva and Strakosha all tested COVID-19 positive for UEFA, but negative for the Lega Serie A.
“When it’s Lazio, we always have to explain what’s going on,” Tare shrugged on Sky Sport Italia.
“We performed the usual swabs last week, we hosted a visit from the Prosecutors’ Office twice and handed over all the tests. We did the tests again on Friday and Saturday, they came back negative, so they played on Sunday.
“Then it was exactly the same thing that happened last week with Andreas Pereira and before that Wesley Hoedt, which is there are some figures in the tests that are judged in a different way.
“We are at the absolute disposal of the authorities, our conscience is clear and we can only wait for the final results.”
Considering the difference in tests last week, will Immobile be given the all-clear using the Serie A swab to play against Juventus on Sunday?
“Yes, we think he can play, because the tests we did half-an-hour after the UEFA one was negative. The same was true of Leiva and Strakosha. It’s very similar to what happened to Inter with Achraf Hakimi.
“There has to be some uniformity, otherwise we cannot continue like this.”
Hakimi was ruled out of Inter’s Champions League game with Borussia Monchengladbach by a positive UEFA test, but came back negative the day after on the Serie A test.