Coronavirus: Confusion over Scotland football match as Czechs cancel game but UEFA insists it's on

<p>The Czech football association announced on Friday that the fixture had been cancelled due to the "current situation with the <strong><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/covid-19-8518" target="_blank">COVID-19</a></strong>".</p><p>The Scottish FA was taken by surprise by the announcement, saying it had "not received any official notification" that the match was off.</p><p>It came after two Czech footballers were told to self-isolate following contact with a backroom staff member who tested positive for <strong><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/coronavirus-8483" target="_blank">coronavirus</a></strong>.</p><p>A spokesman for UEFA, European football's governing body, insisted on Saturday that the game will be played.</p><p>"The match is going ahead as scheduled," he said.</p><p>The Scotland squad, led by manager Steve Clarke, were due to travel to the Czech city of Olomouc on Sunday.</p> <p>Their training session at their Oriam base on the outskirts of Edinburgh is to go ahead on Saturday afternoon as scheduled.</p><p>The Czech Republic's plans for their Nations League opener with Slovakia - which they won 3-1 on Friday night - were affected after West Ham player Tomas Soucek and RB Leipzig striker Patrik Schick were told to self-isolate.</p><p>The Czech FA delayed the departure for Bratislava by 24 hours while the entire squad was re-tested and the players made the 200-mile journey by road after splitting up into small groups.</p> <p><strong>:: Subscribe to the Daily podcast on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sky-news-daily/id951048357?mt=2" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzI4NzI0Ni9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3RdXZrbbG3NydLsPYmRSJy" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/sky-news-daily" target="_blank">Spreaker</a></strong></p><p>The decision by the Czech Republic to call off the Scotland game could cost them points.</p><p>UEFA announced last week that games should go ahead if teams had at least 13 players available, regardless of the pandemic.</p><p>Only in instances where the team cannot provide 13 players will a game be rescheduled.</p>