(Reuters) – Burnley have requested the Premier League to postpone their match against Watford on Tuesday after a string of COVID-19 circumstances and accidents left their squad depleted, the membership stated.
If the game is postponed, it is going to be the twenty second league match to be rescheduled this season.
“The Premier League Board will meet later immediately to evaluate the appliance and inform each golf equipment and their followers of its resolution,” the league stated on Monday.
Burnley’s Premier League match at residence to Leicester City final week was additionally postponed.
Burnley are twentieth within the league on 11 factors, having performed 17 matches, three factors adrift of Watford in seventeenth, who’ve performed 19 matches.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)