{"id":545480,"date":"2020-03-10T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=545480"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:45:34","slug":"report-wolverhampton-wanderers-appeal-to-uefa-to-have-olympiakos-europa-league-tie-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/03\/10\/report-wolverhampton-wanderers-appeal-to-uefa-to-have-olympiakos-europa-league-tie-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Wolverhampton Wanderers Appeal to UEFA to Have Olympiakos Europa League Tie Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers have appeal to UEFA to postpone the first leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimSpiers\/status\/1237373950822420480\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Spiers<\/a> of The Athletic. The club&#8217;s main concern surrounds their opponents Olympiakos&#8217; owner, Evangelos Marinakis, who has contracted Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<h2>Wolverhampton Wanderers Want Europa League Tie Postponed<\/h2>\n<h3>Marinakis Diagnosed With Coronavirus<\/h3>\n<p>The main concern Wolves have over making the trip to Olympiakos is the diagnosis of their opponents&#8217; owner. Marinakis, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/03\/10\/nottingham-forest-owner-evangelos-marinakis-contracts-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also the owner of Championship side Nottingham Forest<\/a>, confirmed in a statement on his Instagram page that he had been &#8220;visited&#8221; by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9jOCDQHASm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9jOCDQHASm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Marinakis #HealthStatement #Message<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/evangelos.marinakis\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Evangelos Marinakis<\/a> (@evangelos.marinakis) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-03-10T10:47:19+00:00\">Mar 10, 2020 at 3:47am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This comes after he attended the Championship game between Forest and Millwall on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spiers, discussions between Wolves and UEFA around the postponement of the game are ongoing.<\/p>\n<h3>Wolves &#8216;Not Happy&#8217; But Will Travel If Required<\/h3>\n<p>Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo backed up the club&#8217;s stance that they were not happy to travel to the game. However, he insisted that if UEFA would not postpone it, then they would still play.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Sky Sports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11699\/11954573\/coronavirus-wolves-boss-nuno-espirito-santo-says-europa-league-tie-should-be-postponed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said<\/a>: &#8220;We have obligations. I&#8217;m an employee. If we have to go, then we will go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not happy to go. Olympiakos are suffering their own problems. It&#8217;s time to think &#8211; is there another option? Can we stop? This will eventually happen in the Premier League. Let&#8217;s think about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are living with fear. If we have to go then as a club, then we have to come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the game does not go ahead, it will be the first involving an English club to be called off due to the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Chelsea<\/a> have already confirmed that their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/03\/10\/coronavirus-manchester-uniteds-europa-league-tie-at-lask-to-be-behind-closed-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">respective games<\/a> against LASK and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayern Munich<\/a> will be <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/03\/10\/chelsea-vs-bayern-munich-to-be-played-behind-closed-doors-due-to-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">played behind closed<\/a> doors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"TXJ1H8rRQVpZr6Lx1pU9OQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1204351081\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'TXJ1H8rRQVpZr6Lx1pU9OQ',sig:'vo1gMPOvuE2LgZxapAmUsqq4fOyazB6_ZD9XiKFQR74=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1204351081',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers have appeal to UEFA to postpone the first leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie, according to Tim Spiers of The Athletic. The club&#8217;s main concern surrounds their opponents Olympiakos&#8217; owner, Evangelos Marinakis, who has contracted Coronavirus. Wolverhampton Wanderers Want Europa League Tie Postponed Marinakis Diagnosed With Coronavirus The main concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":545481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,30,2510],"tags":[92,5005,1560,3697,833,136],"class_list":["post-545480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wolves","tag-europa-league","tag-evangelos-marinakis","tag-nuno-espirito-santo","tag-olympiakos","tag-wolverhampton-wanderers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}