Juventus' Coppa Italia semi-final second leg with AC Milan on Wednesday night has been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis in Italy.
The sides are level at 1-1 following the first leg, when Cristiano Ronaldo buried a controversial late penalty to cancel out Ante Rebic’s opener.
The virus has caused chaos with the Italian football calendar, with a number of Serie A fixtures postponed in recent weeks.
Juve’s top-of-the-table clash with Inter last weekend was one of five games postponed, having previously been earmarked to be played behind closed doors.
Udinese vs Fiorentina, Milan vs Genoa, Parma vs SPAL and Sassuolo vs Brescia were the four other fixtures postponed that weekend, and reorganised for May 13.
However, with more fixtures this week set to be called off, Juve’s game with Inter was reportedly set to be played on Monday, March 9 in order to ease potential fixture congestion later in the season.
Inter were reportedly unhappy with this resolution. President Steven Zhang called Serie A president Paolo Dal Pino “the biggest and darkest clown I have ever seen” over his handling of the fixture chaos.
A government decree has suspended all sporting events in regions affected by the coronavirus until March 8.
That has meant Juve’s game with Bologna will not go ahead. Atalanta vs Lazio, Inter vs Sassuolo, and Hellas Verona vs Napoli are the other games postponed this weekend.
Rashnic/GOAT/CR7
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Juventus and AC Milan fans be like: Nice game coming soon Coronavirus: Next joke pls 😂😂😂😂
Xanderr
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The Game of Football has been ruined by this Virus .... Dear God look at this We need you to save us from This ... Beautiful games are being postponed because of this .... Its so Sad😔😔
DrFranckeinstein
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Italian football is really suffering with this Corona virus. Hope it will end soon not just for football to continue but for other activities to proceed normally
JohnWick7
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players Like Cuadrado and Matuidi has been rendered jobless for the past one week now[Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
KingJerryTheGreat
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Another boring week because of this Corona thing.....
Nwasouth
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HOW CORONA VIRUS STARTED
Nesaiknruy_Legend
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The reality is this virus is really dangerous till it is identified how to cure it and rid of it. We all love football but better to at least consider human safety first the toll is rising very quickly day by day we should put our fan culture aside and look at the bigger picture...
JohnWick7
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Corona Virus has Dribbled pass VAR to be the number one bad Ass of football😑
ABDELMONEMSHAJR
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WHY CORONA VIRUS WHAT WE HAS MAKE FOR YOU DO WE BEAT YOU DO WE HURT YOU SAY FOR ME WHO MAKE FOR YOU LIKE THIS AND I WILL BEAT THIM ALL
JohnWick7
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Why delaying the match when Corona doesn't have what it takes to beat Cr7 nor Zlatan to the Finals[Crylaugh][Crylaugh]