Tottenham do not fear their Premier League match against Manchester United will be postponed despite a coronavirus scare.
Spurs played a friendly against Norwich on Friday, just a day before the latest COVID-19 results were announced.
Two positive tests were returned across the whole Premier League, including one unnamed Norwich player who featured in the match against Jose Mourinho’s side.
That player will have to isolate for seven days and will be unavailable for the Canaries’ first match back against Southampton on Friday.
Tottenham explained in a statement that none of their squad had ‘close contacts’ with the player and therefore will not have to self-isolate themselves.
This means their match against Manchester United at home, also on Friday, is likely to be unaffected.
In a statement to the BBC, the club said: “Close contacts have been defined by the government as being within two metres of a confirmed case for 15 minutes or more.
“The Norwich player in question confirmed he had no ‘close contacts’ with our team and our squad also verified this.
“Our testing has continued to return only negative results for COVID-19 since one positive reading was confirmed almost two weeks ago.”
Tottenham were beaten 2-1 in that friendly with Norwich with the game being played in four 30-minute periods.
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Mourinho was unconcerned with the scoreline and pleased to get more minutes into the players’ legs.
He told the club’s website: “We needed minutes, we needed to know the feeling of playing here without our supporters and to have this session with another Premier League team is the best thing.
“It was a different match. We were supposed to divide the team in two and play another match but that was not possible, so I agreed with Daniel (Farke) to have this match of four periods.
“Of course, when you get into the third and fourth periods, you start making lots of changes because in the end, what we wore out tactically, we do at the training ground, and today was more about competing, minutes, intensity.
“In the last period we played some of the young boys, even George Marsh, who was playing for Leyton Orient, but joined us for this period of preparation where we need numbers.
“It was very important to do it and to go into this last week without any injuries, because we all know in these first matches, even friendlies, there is always the risk of getting injuries.
“It was good. I thank Daniel and his players and everyone at Norwich for coming to us and to share with us this opportunity, the last opportunity for us and them before our Friday matches.”
