Serie A punishes Napoli with defeat against Juve and one point less

The Lega Serie A sports judge ruled today on the Juventus-Naples case, deciding to punish the Azzurri with defeat (0-3) and one point less in the standings. The match on October 4 was not played because the southerners did not travel to Turin after a communication from the local health authority due to the covid positives of the players Eljif Elmas and Piotr Zielinski. According to judge Gerardo Mastrandea, however, the communications from the 'ASL' made it clear that “the responsibility for the FIGC protocols belonged to the SSC Napoli” and that, then, the situation was not “incompatible with the application of the protocol and, therefore, with the possibility of traveling and playing the match in Turin “.

According to the judge, the first contacts between Napoli and the ‘ASL’ did not prevent the southerners from traveling, although there was a communication, on Sunday at 2:13 pm, that clarified an “order from the authority with prescriptive connotations.” However, by that time it was too late. The Azzurro club had canceled its flight on Saturday night, giving up traveling before the health authorities clarified that it could not and not doing “everything possible to respect the protocol”. Napoli will obviously appeal to the federal court of appeal. And he promises to wage war until possible.