If the players of Naples stayed at home, the Turinese prepared all day the meeting of the 3rd day of Serie A as if nothing had happened.
They arrived at the stadium about an hour before kickoff, set at 6:45 p.m., according to images posted by the club on Twitter.
But they will not have an opponent: the Napoli team did not make the trip, the players having been kept in isolation on instructions from the regional health authorities, according to Italian media.
In view of the rules adopted this week by the sports authorities, the Azzurri run the risk of losing the match on the green carpet 3-0.
I bianconeri sono all'Allianz Stadium #JuveNapoli pic.twitter.com/vd3GVKTWck
- JuventusFC (@juventusfc) October 4, 2020
The kick-off was still officially maintained at 6:45 p.m. by the Italian Football League, which estimated this Sunday afternoon that the protocol to frame the Serie A matches should allow Napoli to field a team against Juve, despite the two positive cases in the Neapolitan workforce (midfielders Eljif Elmas and Piotr Zielinski).
The standards established by the governing bodies of Italian football with the health authorities "allow the holding of the league matches even when there are positive cases, by aligning the negative players with the tests carried out within the prescribed deadlines", underlined the League .
These measures, "applicable to the situation of Napoli", have already allowed the holding of other matches since the start of the season, she added.
A postponement, but only once in the season
The League this week endorsed UEFA rules providing that a match could take place as long as a team had 13 healthy players, including a goalkeeper.
According to this protocol, a team which is not able to present the required number of players loses the match on the green carpet.
The only possible exemption: if a club houses an active outbreak of Covid-19 with more than ten new positive cases in a week, it can request a postponement, but only once in the season.
This was the case with Genoa, where 17 players tested positive in one week and whose scheduled match against Torino on Saturday has been postponed.
But not that of Naples.
However, in the eyes of Napoli, the health instructions of the local authorities are opposed to the sports health protocol: it is thus on the basis of a letter from the health authority of the Campania region that the club of President Aurelio de Laurentiis , a regular hit, decided not to make the trip.
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In a letter sent to the League, published by the Gazzetta dello sport, the Neapolitan president assures that, despite the protocol established by the Federation, his club has not been allowed to leave Naples.
In this letter, he asks "to postpone the meeting to another date".