{"id":48894,"date":"2025-05-19T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48894"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:04:40","slug":"napoli-and-inter-title-deciding-matches-moved-to-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/napoli-and-inter-title-deciding-matches-moved-to-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli and Inter Title-Deciding Matches Moved to Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two potential title-deciding matches of the Serie A season have been moved to Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian league\u2019s governing body announced on Monday that Napoli\u2019s home game against Cagliari and Inter\u2019s match at Como will kick off simultaneously at 8:45 p.m. local time (1945 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Conte\u2019s Napoli has a one-point lead over defending champion Inter Milan heading into the final round.<\/p>\n<p>If both teams finish level at the top of the league, there will have to be a playoff to decide the destination of the title.<\/p>\n<p>Given that very real possibility and that Inter is also in the Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain on May 31, a scheduling issue arose.<\/p>\n<p>The league council met on Monday morning and Italian media reports that the meeting was immediately suspended because of disagreements: with Inter wanting to play the final matches on Thursday and Napoli on Friday, in order to celebrate more fully with its fans.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions eventually got back underway and it was decided to play the Napoli and Inter matches on Friday and the rest of the league games on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two potential title-deciding matches of the Serie A season have been moved to Friday night. The Italian league\u2019s governing body announced on Monday that Napoli\u2019s home game against Cagliari and Inter\u2019s match at Como will kick off simultaneously at 8:45 p.m. local time (1945 GMT). Antonio Conte\u2019s Napoli has a one-point lead over defending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48897,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48894\/revisions\/48897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}