Lazio is being investigated for using players who were positive for Covid-19. The 'Gazzetta dello Sport' even says that "the farce in Lazio has been unmasked", with the club and three players even being accused of criminally spreading the epidemic.
Basically Immobile, Lucas Leiva and Strakosha were out of the Champions League encounter with Brugge, but then supposedly tested negative and went on to play against Torino (4-3 win), 3 days before the duel against Zenit for the Champions League returned to test positive.
On Friday, Lazio's doctor, Ivo Pulcini, announced that all the club's players had tested negative and would be available for the clash against Juventus this Sunday, but the tests by Immobile, Lucas Leiva and Strakosha were sent to a another laboratory and the result was positive again.
Now, if fraud is proven, Lazio can be fined, lose points in the championship or even be excluded from the competition.
To make it even worse, the club president, Claudio Lotito, was indignant at being deprived of players who are not contagious. «It's like a magic trick ... What's that about being positive? Is it contagious? But there are bacteria in the vaginas of women all over the world and that does not mean that they are pathogens, ”he argued in an interview with La Repubblica. “Our doctors evaluated Immobile and he has a better lung capacity than before, why can't he play against Juventus? There are differences in the interpretation of results and I asked the federation to centralize the tests, so that we have the same parameters for everyone », he added.
