Champions League: Maribor withdraws, 4 matches postponed so far. Current situation.
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Effects of Coronavirus pandemic also on the European cups: in Pool C, Merkur Maribor forfeited the match scheduled tomorrow in Novosibirsk. The Siberians thus earn a triple 25-0 useful to improve the points quotient but, having already suffered 2 defeats, it could be useless.
About Pool E, in Turkey, Fenerbahce recently announced 5 positive players, but the match against Perugia (with Giannelli returning negative, but without Colaci, Ricci and SolĂš) scheduled for Wednesday will be played.
The Pool A match between Hebar Pazardzhik and Knack Roeselare will also not be played on Wednesday.
The Belgians (who won 3-0 in their domestic league a couple of days ago) have with numerous cases of covid and cannot leave for Bulgaria. In the next few days it will be known if Bulgarians will have the victory or if the match will be postponed.
Moreover, the Pool D match between Berlin and St. Petersburg will not be played on Wednesday.
The Germans are still struggling with numerous cases of coronavirus, so the Russian team canceled the trip. The two teams have agreed to recover the match in St. Petersburg on 15 or 17 February, the day before or the day after the match already scheduled for the 6th round of the pool stage.
In Pool B, due to numerous positive players, even Projekt Warsaw will not be able to take the field Tuesday against Greenyard Maaseik. By mutual agreement with the Belgian team and CEV, the match will be played in Belgium on the 15th February, while on February 16, again in Maaseik, the match valid for the sixth round will be played.
And it is the fourth match canceled for this week.

