Salernitana have requested the second leg of their Serie B relegation play-off in opposition to Sampdoria be postponed, after gamers and employees have been admitted to hospital with meals poisoning.
The Italian membership have formally requested a postponement after 21 of the travelling social gathering turned ailing as they flew again from Genoa after dropping Sunday’s first leg 2-0.
Salernitana face relegation to Italy’s third tier after dropping out of Serie A 12 months in the past, however lots of their gamers are too ailing to coach earlier than Friday’s second leg.
“We’re really shocked by what occurred and by the sequence of occasions that danger jeopardising Salernitana’s clean and peaceable strategy to the ultimate and essential minutes of the season,” membership CEO Maurizio Milan stated.
“Many gamers and employees, in the intervening time, are usually not even capable of present up on the sports activities centre to renew coaching.”
The membership say they’ve made casual contact with Serie B officers and acquired “basic openness” to evaluating their postponement request.
Salernitana have additionally referred to as for an investigation into the “causes of this widespread and critical episode”.
They’d been as a result of play Frosinone within the relegation play-off, however a four-point deduction for Brescia due to monetary irregularities meant they have been routinely relegated instead of Sampdoria, who then changed Frosinone within the tie.
