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Gennaro Gattuso waves close to the touchline throughout a Serie A fixture.© AFP
Napoli on Tuesday received their attraction over a 3-Zero defeat and one-point deduction for failing to show as much as play Juventus due to coronavirus circumstances. Napoli took their case to the Sports Guarantee Board of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), the very best stage of sporting justice in Italy, after having earlier appeals in opposition to the ruling rejected by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Serie A. CONI mentioned in an announcement they “accepted the appeal presented by Napoli and annulled without postponement the decision of the Sports Court of Appeal at the FIGC … including the penalty of losing the match Juventus-Napoli and the deduction of one point.”
The October four fixture had been deserted relatively than referred to as off when Napoli didn’t journey to Turin.
Napoli have been punished with an computerized 3-Zero defeat and in addition docked one level for not attending the deliberate match.
They had argued they have been ordered to not journey by the native well being authority as a consequence of Piotr Zielinski and Eljif Elmas testing optimistic for Covid-19.
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The match was scheduled simply days after Napoli had performed Genoa, who subsequently recorded over a dozen COVID circumstances inside their squad.
Italian media report that the match at Juve’s Allianz Stadium might be newly scheduled for January 13.
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