Following the controversy surrounding the unplayed match between Sierra Leone and Benin on Tuesday, March 30, the five Benin internationals who had tested positive for Covid-19 in Freetown returned to France. And everyone has tested negative by their respective clubs. Steve Mounié (Brest), Cédric Hountondji and Jodel Dossou (Clermont) could even play the weekend of April 3-4.
The spotlight has not yet been shed on the Sierra Leone-Benin match, the last meeting in qualifies for CAN 2021 still not played. As a reminder, the two choices were to face each other in Freetown on Tuesday, March 30 for a decisive face-to-face in Group L, where Nigeria (14 points) are already assured of first place and where only others remain. awarded (7 points for Benin, currently second and 4 points for Sierra Leone, third). This is the last qualifying spot for the next continental tournament.
The match could not be held afterimbroglio around the positive tests for Covid-19 of five squirrels: Khaled Adénon, Saturnin Allagbé, Jodel Dossou, Cédric Hountondji and Steve Mounié. Five big players from the Beninese selection tested positive … three hours before the start. The Beninese, wounded and convinced of a fraud, refused to play. And after a lot of excitement and negotiations, the match was over postponed until June.
Hountondji, Dossou and Mounié played
The end of the story is not yet known, but the return of these five players to France after this international bracket gives water to the mill of suspicions about what happened in Freetown: none of these players have tested positive for Covid-19 of four clubs involved.
The last result regarding Khaled Adénon fell on the evening of Saturday, April 3: the defender is negative. He was not in the group Avranches, resident of National, who won in Bastia the day before (1-0).
On the other hand, the two Clermontois were on the ground on Saturday against Niort, on the 31st day of Ligue 2 (0-0): defender Cédric Hountondji played the entire match, while Jodel Dossou entered the match in the 62nd. Clermont occupies third place in the championship.
This Sunday, April 4, Steve Mounié was the holder at the head of the Brest attack, beaten in Lorient in connection with the 31st day of Ligue 1 (1-0). As for goalkeeper Saturnin Allagbé, he is in the Dijon squad that will face Olympique de Marseille in the evening. Unless the titular goalkeeper, Anthony Racioppi, is unavailable, he will be a replacement at the Vélodrome.
Five players tested negative, including at least three who could play this weekend in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. All just four days after the controversy in Freetown. Charges of fraud are unlikely to subside thereafter. On Instagram, Cédric Hountondji also passed on a message highlighting this illogic.
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