Published 23:14 IST, March 5th 2020

Serie A to resume with last weekend's postponed matches

The Italian soccer league will resume in full this weekend in empty stadiums, starting with the matches that were postponed last round because of the virus outbreak in Italy — including the potential title decider between Juventus and Inter Milan.

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Italian soccer league will resume in full this weekend in empty stadiums, starting with matches that were postponed last round because of virus outbreak in Italy — including potential title decider between Juventus and Inter Milan.

revised Serie A calendar was anunced on Thursday and followed previous day’s decree from Italian government that

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Six matches were postponed last week, including Juventus-Inter game — one of biggest matches of season kwn as “Derby d’Italia,” or Italy’s derby.

That match will be played on Sunday at 8:45 p.m. local time (1945 GMT).

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Sunday’s or matches are: Parma vs. Spal, AC Milan vs. Gea, Sampdoria vs. Hellas Verona and Udinese vs. Fiorentina. game between Sassuolo and Brescia will take place Monday.

remainder of Serie A calendar will likely be pushed back a week.

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Italy is epicenter of Europe’s coronavirus outbreak. More than 100 people have died and more than 3,000 have been infected with COVID-19, mainly in rth of country.

Four Serie A matches went ahead last weekend as y were taking place in areas that had t been affected by measures to control outbreak.

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Lazio beat Bologna 2-0 on Saturday to move top of league, two points above Juventus and eight points above Inter, which also had its previous match against Sampdoria postponed.

new date has yet been decided for Inter match, with Antonio Conte’s side still in Europa League and Italian Cup.

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Three or matches were postponed two weekend ago and will be played on March 18.

New dates for Italian Cup semifinals have also yet to be anunced.

23:14 IST, March 5th 2020