Serie A undercard stars but anger grows as postponements pile up | Nicky Bandini


A tally of 16 goals across the two Sunday games able to take place offered relief from conflict, confusion and Coronavirus

Atalanta and Lecce did their best to pick up the slack on a weekend missing its headline act. Cagliari and Roma, too. For the second week running, Serie A’s Sunday schedule was reduced to two games, with the rest all postponed amid disagreement over the appropriate response to Italy’s Coronavirus outbreaks. This time, the cancellations included the Derby d’Italia.

No other match could capture the imagination like that one: Juventus taking on Internazionale in the first season when both have truly contested the title against one another for almost two decades. But the four teams who did take the field entertained us instead by combining for 16 goals.

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INCREDIBLE GOAL FROM JOÃO PEDRO!

What an audacious finish from the Cagliari forward

⚽ Roma respond almost instantly through Kalinic too, and it's 1-1 pic.twitter.com/No7H6lA0eE

Cagliari 3-4 Roma, Lazio 2-0 Bologna, Lecce 2-7 Atalanta, Napoli 2-1 Torino

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