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    More questions than answers in Serie A

    Sep 04, 2020 3 minutes
    Paddy Agnew

    Rarely has a new Serie A season prompted so many imponderables as the upcoming 2020-21 version, and not just because of COVID-19.

    The season that just ended was turned on its head by the elimination of Juventus by Olympique Lyon at the last-16 stage of the Champions League in early August. Mighty shockwaves were generated by the realisation that the all-dominant Juventus, the club that had just lifted its ninth consecutive Italian title, had been eliminated by the seventh strongest club in France.

    Has Italian football sunk that low? Is former Juventus, Roma, Milan and England

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