In early January this year, the Federation football Italy (FIGC) bluntly deducted 15 points from Juventus when it said that the “Old Lady” had committed financial violations as well as illegal transfer activities in the period 2018 – 2022.
It was a big shock when Juventus, although they are in good form, are pushed to the middle of the rankings and have no chance of competing for a spot. participate in the European Cup. However, on the evening of April 20, Italy’s Federal Court of Appeals canceled Juventus’ decision to deduct 15 points and continued to investigate additional evidence before finalizing the penalty.
The process of re-examining the evidence as well as finding out new evidence will cause this case to be closed. extended until the end of this year at the earliest. If points are still deducted, Juventus will be deducted next season (2023-24) instead of this season.
With 8 remaining matches in Serie A, the decision of the Federal Court of Claims has helped Juventus jumped position on the rankings from 7th to 3rd place with 59 points after 30 rounds. Although still 16 points behind top team Napoli, Juventus is in the four teams that qualify Champions League next season.
On the contrary, AC Milan was pushed down from fourth place. 5th place and 3 points behind AS Roma’s top 4, 6 points behind Juventus.
In addition to receiving good news in the domestic tournament, Juventus is facing the opportunity to win the Europa League championship when it just defeated Sporting Lisbon to join the four teams to win tickets to the semi-finals. The Turin team’s opponent in the semi-finals is Sevilla – the team that just defeated Man Utd 3-0 in the quarter-final second leg on the morning of May 21.
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