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Three other fixtures were also played behind closed doors, including Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers’ 1-1 draw at 10-man Olympiakos. The match in Athens was given the go-ahead despite the Greek club’s owner Evangelos Marinakis saying earlier on Thursday he had contracted the virus.

Bayer Leverkusen celebrated a 3-1 win at Rangers in front of a full house at Ibrox and Istanbul Basaksehir fans rejoiced after an 88th-minute penalty by Edin Visca gave them a 1-0 home win over FC Copenhagen.

PL and CL matches suspended

England’s Premier League became the latest high-profile competition to announce a suspension as the Coronavirus pandemic continued its unprecedented shutdown of world sport on Friday.

On another frenetic day of sporting turmoil, the announcement that England’s top-flight football league would be halted came shortly after the sport’s European governing body UEFA announced that all next week’s Champions League and Europa League games had been postponed.

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