Serie A refuses to postpone the games, due to the already packed schedule, but the Covid cases just keep popping out, creating a real mess in the Italian championship. For example, there is an outbreak of the virus in the Bologna squad, and the game with Inter is on schedule at 14.30, but still, nobody knows will the game be played at all. Another team, Hellas Verona, have just as many cases and are not under orders to quarantine yet, having already traveled to La Spezia. Salernitana, Udinese, and Torino have already been ordered not to travel and placed under quarantine conditions due to outbreaks of COVID-19 within their squads.Serie A wont postpone any matches, for the games stopped because of health authorities, the teams who aren’t being stopped from traveling will take the pitch and after 45 minutes they’ll be awarded a 3-0 victory.📰 via Sky Italia— Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) January 5, 2022 The first two games are scheduled to be played at 14:30, but Bologna already appealed for postponement, while Sampdoria – Cagliari is supposed to go ahead as planned. There are two big games played today later in the day, as Milan is hosting Roma and Juve is expecting Napoli, but those games are also under threat due to Covid outbreaks in Milan and Napoli.It seems that Serie A executives are not sure what they need to do and how to handle this situation, unlike Bologna director:“It is unlikely that they’ll be able to play, we are going towards an order to stop competitive sport,” Bologna ASL director Paolo Bordon told La Repubblica’s online edition. The trouble is, there are two rules: the first one is that you don’t have to be in quarantine if you received your second or third vaccine in the last 120 days, but the rule states they can only leave their home wearing a FFP2 level mask. So will they have to wear those while playing football? That seems to be the latest case with three Napoli players.Mourinho asking for another Arsenal player, Insigne going to CanadaAs Football-Italia reports, Napoli has been told three players – Piotr Zielinski, Amir Rrahmani and Stanislav Lobotka –should go into quarantine, despite traveling to Turin today, while it’s possible the others can only face Juventus wearing masks. That is because Zielinski, Rrahmani and Lobotka did not have their most recent jabs within 120 days. They are ordered to go into quarantine and self-isolate at home, which is going to be tricky, because they are already in Turin, and nobody knows how this uncertainty and unclarity due to different Covid regulations will end.‘Ramsey is going, but Morata will not leave Juve. Case closed’Milan – Roma should also go ahead even though the club informed the league they have three more positive players. First, there were five of them (Ciprian Tatarusanu Samu Castillejo, Davide Calabria, Fikayo Tomori, and Alessio Romagnoli), and then three new cases were confirmed by Milan.“AC Milan can confirm that three players have tested positive for COVID-19 following tests carried out on the squad today,” reads the statement. So, these games should be played… unless they aren’t. SERIE A ROUND 20 Thursday, January 6th 14:30 Bologna – Inter14:30 Sampdoria – Cagliari16:30 Lazio – Empoli16:30 Spezia – Hellas Verona18:30 Sassuolo – Genoa20:30 Milan – Roma22:45 Juventus – NapoliSalernitana – Venezia – PostponedFiorentina – Udinese – PostponedAtalanta – Torino – Postponed
