Hindsight isn't 2020 - The 2019-20 Season Thread [R]

And then there's this.

🚨 Due to Spain’s ban on direct flights from Italy, Napoli may be forced to travel to Barcelona by bus! #UCL [@CarloAlvino]

It’s 16 hours by car! pic.twitter.com/D1h2IqF30z

— Adriano Del Monte (@adriandelmonte) March 10, 2020

 

^ Yeah, the flight ban is to discourage long-distance travel. But they're going to BCN one way or the other so that makes zero sense. I suspect common sense will prevail eventually and they will be able to fly.

 

16 hour road trip?
memories of Eyjafjallajokull.

 

Inter milan 2010's flashback

 

Current rule in Italy is you can’t travel without providing a legit reason. So nothing stopping them from flying to BCN unless something changes drastically in the next 4 days.

 

Yeah I think all sporting competitions are done for this year.

The likes of France UK Germany will have a surge like Italy in the next week or so. All leagues will be cancelled, CL, EU and Euros too. Olympics too

Kinda sucks but it must be done.

Speaking of I am highly disappointed with the responses of the richest countries in the world sans S Korea. USA Italy UK France Spain Germany all shit the bed. You can point out at how China is a dictatorship so of course they handled it well. S Korea aren't

My country has had much better response than those countries.

 

True. What else are they gonna say? All we know is that they are responsible for it.

 

I don't think Barca Napoli is happening

The number of cases have started to blow up. A week form now it will as bad as Italy is currently

 

Yeah, its a mess. No idea how they're gonna find the time to make-up the games if a whole month of league fixtures are postponed. I shouldn't even write "if" since its already a certainty in Italy. Italy is tossing around the idea of playoffs.

Champions league might be easier to make-up lost time. Theoretically you can play the last 3 KO rounds in 15 days give or take.

 

Napoli probably will not travel to Spain. The match may be cancelled.

 

Juventus game will not take place, they will have to quarantine entire squad for at least 2 weeks since Rugani is positive. Lyon game postpone most likely.

 

La Liga suspended for two weeks now due to quarantine of Real Madrid.

BREAKING: La Liga suspended for two weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak pic.twitter.com/sstKMD8Zs4

— B/R Football (@brfootball) March 12, 2020

 

Just give us the tittle

 

Well, there are 4 scenarios for what to do with La Liga. Two of them would result in Barca being declared champions (i.e. base it on current table or base it on the table after 19 matchdays).

Of course a third option is to play out the remaining fixtures when the virus subsides. At least we should have a healthy Suarez and Messi. Fourth option is to declare season null and void.

 

They could have a relegation playoff, but yeah.... hard to get everyone involved to agree in the format. Teams that are 8-10 points above Asspanyol are not gonna want to be put in a playoff where everyone re-starts from the same point.
A 22-team La Liga next season is yet another option (so count the season, but nobody gets relegated, invite the top 2 from Segunda).

 

I think what will happen is that the leagues will resume in early June. Followed by the 2020-2021 CL qualifiers will run simultaneously with the quarters/semis and final of this year's CL.

Euros will be cancelled 100% but hey they are spread across multiple countries so no country will take a huge hit