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The Juventus-Napoli match, which was scheduled to play the 3rd week of the Italian Serie A, could not be disputed due to the cases of coronavirus in the guest team’s squad, since they could not go to the city of Turin. Host Juventus and the trio of referees, who had previously announced that they would play the match, took their places in the stadium at 8:45 p.m. (TSI 21:45) at the start of the match and according to the rules, the opposing team was expected to take the field until the last moment of the first part. The Napoli team, which could not go to Turin, could not go out onto the pitch. With the end of the first half, referee Daniele Doveri was on vacation and the expected decision was announced.
The Italian Football Federation announced that Napoli, who could not play in the Juventus match, were declared defeated by default and 1 point was eliminated.
What happened?
After players Piotr Zielinski and Elijf Elmas from the Napoli team and 1 person from the technical team tested positive for Covid-19, the local health authorities of the city of Naples did not allow the blue and white team to leave, indicating that they should remain in quarantine .
In return, Juventus announced that they would be on the field and the Serie A League Management announced that the match would start on time. Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis asked his rival Juventus and the Serie A leadership to postpone the match.
According to the rules established in Serie A, if a team has a lot of Covid-19 cases, the team in question can request a postponement of the match for one time.
In the news and comments from the Italian press, it is stated that the Club of Naples, which obviously cannot go to the match, does not request to make use of its right of postponement and hopes that the postponement decision will come from the league leadership, but the league leadership has not taken that step.
Napoli received Genoa at home during the match in the second week and, after this match, 17 cases of Kovid-19 were detected in the visiting team. The Genoa Club had requested that this week’s Torino match be postponed as many people on the team had Kovid-19s.
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