Barca vs Dynamo Kiev goes ahead as planned after negative Corona tests

Nine positive Covid-19 tests from earlier this week meant that

have named a travelling party of just 13 players from their ‘A squad’ list and one more absentee would mean that the match at the Camp Nou would be postponed.

have confirmed that

,

,

,

,

and

have all tested positive this week, while

,

and

were all already in quarantine following previous tests.

The absentees have hit the goalkeeping department – the club’s two first-choice goalkeepers are unavailable while the normal starting pair of full-backs are also now not involved.

Their 13-man squad of A-list players is the lowest number that can be named for UEFA to let the game go ahead, meaning that if one more player tests positive for Covid-19 before Wednesday night, the game would have to be postponed, as Marca said on Tuesday, but this possibility is now unlikely.