Inter & Atalanta Have Request To Postpone Their First Serie A Match Of 2020/2021 Season Approved | OneFootball

Inter and Atalanta’s requests for their first Serie A game of the 2020/21 to be postponed have been approved according to a report in today’s print edition of Italian daily newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.

Both clubs requested the postponement of their first fixture of the season in order to be able to have a longer rest period following the end of the 2019/20 season, which spanned nearly an entire calendar year for both clubs given their progression in European competition which saw them both play into the middle of August.

Inter and Atalanta’s requests have been approved by the Italian football federationa federal council and their seasons will therefore not start on the weekend of September 19 and 20 but the weekend after.

The report from the Milan based news outlet goes on to explain that Roma and Cagliari’s requests to have their first fixture postponed due to recording some postive COVID-19 tests have been denied.