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Juventus and Milan take centre stage for 'high-adrenaline' return of Italian football

12-Jun-2020 09:00:17 | The Guardian

Fans are divided but the Coppa Italia restarts with mouth-watering games this weekend and Serie A itself on 20 June

Consider this weekend as the antipasto, leading us into an Italian footballing feast. Serie A will return on 20 June, with the first of 124 games that are scheduled to be played in a span of only 44 days. Until then, fans can whet their appetites with the final rounds of the Coppa Italia, which resumes with Juventus hosting Milan on Friday night.

The first legs of this season’s semi-finals were played on 12 and 13 February – a full four months ago. Both took place at San Siro in Milan, a city that would find itself close to the epicentre of Europe’s coronavirus outbreak. Nobody could have imagined such a scenario back then. The first confirmed case in the Lombardy region was not diagnosed until a week later.

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