May 25 (Reuters) - Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend says players are "desperate" to return to contact training and that he is encouraged by the results of the Premier League's testing regime for the new coronavirus. The second round of testing returned two positives -- with Bournemouth saying one of their players was now self-isolating -- as the government issued guidance on the next step for athletes to resume close-contact training. "We're desperate to get back to normality and contact training," Townsend told Sky Sports https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11706/11993826/andros-townsend-players-keen-for-contact-training-after-successful-testing. "We're training in groups of eight so there's 16 players from the squad I just haven't seen," Townsend added. "Hopefully with each successful round of testing we can get a few more players back into training and some time next week we can move on to phase two."

Source: Sky sports May 25, 2020 04:58 UTC