Hirving Lozano’s team won the appeal for the three points awarded to Vecchia Signora on day 3 for not showing up for the match
The Italian National Olympic Committee decided on Tuesday that the match between Juventus and Napoli on day 3 of Serie A. Will have to be challenged after a ruling in favor of Gennaro Gattuso’s team, the team that had been sanctioned with one point and lost the game 3-0 due to not showing up at Allianz Stadium.
According to information from Gazzetta dello Sport, next Wednesday, January 13 is the provisional date that the directors must challenge the commitment that was originally agreed for last October 4, when the authorities prevented Naples from taking the flight to Turin.
Napoli faced Genoa in the second round of Serie A, a set that in the week before the third day reported up to 22 articles infected with coronavirus, between the players, coaching staff and staff, a situation for which the team led by Gennaro Gattuso went on alert.
The whole of southern Italy underwent several tests for Covid-19 before traveling to Turin. In the first, everyone gave negative results, but a few hours before taking the flight for the match with Juventus presented three positive cases: Piotr Zielinski, Eljif Elmas, as well as a member of the coaching team.
He The National Health Service intervened to prevent Naples from taking a flight to Turin to avoid possible infections, so the azulones could not appear for the match of the second meeting with Juventus.
Despite the fact that the Serie A authorities were aware of this problem, They decided to keep the match and not cancel it, so Vecchia Signora went to the property, even though they knew that their rival would not appear.
Managers decided to give Juventus the 3-0 victory, while Napoli was penalized with a point.