COVID-19 Is Getting Raging: A Total Of 16 Premier League Matches Have Been Postponed, The Latest Is Arsenal Vs Wolves

Illustration of Wolves players forced to go on Boxing Day without a match (Twitter @wolves)

JAKARTA - The match week 20 of the English Premier League Arsenal vs Wolverhampton, which was originally scheduled to take place at the Emirates, London, Tuesday, has been postponed. The reason is that the visiting team is experiencing a COVID-19 crisis.

The match became the second match of the 20th week to be suspended for the same reason after a few hours earlier the Premier League had also announced the suspension of Leeds United vs Aston Villa.

Through its official website, as quoted by Antara, the Premier League confirmed that it had accepted the suspension proposed by Wolverhampton because their squad did not have the number of 13 players and one goalkeeper according to the rules, due to COVID-19 cases and injuries.

Our trip to @Arsenal on Tuesday 28th December has been postponed, with Bruno Lage having an insufficient number of players available to fulfill the fixture.🆚⏸️

— Wolves (@Wolves) December 26, 2021

The decision continues to add to the long list of suspended matches in the Premier League this season to 16 due to the surge in COVID-19 cases.

In fact, the Boxing Day series which became a tradition of British football had to leave three of the nine scheduled matches. Arsenal played their Boxing Day match and won 5-0 at Norwich City, while Wolverhampton will have to rest and wait for the rescheduled meeting against Watford.

Throughout December alone, 15 matches had to be rescheduled due to the outbreak of the Omicron Covid-19 variant in England.

Even so, the Premier League said the participating clubs had agreed to continue playing possible matches during the busy Boxing Day period until the turn of the year in which each team was supposed to make three appearances.