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Napoli set to be handed loss for failing to show at Juve Sergio Garcia birdies final hole to win in Mississipp­i ‘Winner’ celebrates too soon at Liège-BastogneLi­ège classic

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Napoli is likely to be handed a 3-0 loss by the Italian league’s judge for failing to show for its Serie A match at Juventus on Sunday night.

Napoli did not travel to Turin for the game after local health authoritie­s ordered the squad into quarantine after two players tested positive for the coronaviru­s — midfielder­s Piotr Zielinski and Eljif Elmas.

Juventus followed its regular matchday routine on Sunday and arrived at the stadium for the scheduled 8:45 p.m. (1845 GMT) kickoff. In somewhat farcical scenes, several players walked out onto the field while a limited number of fans watched from the stands.

Sergio Garcia had gone just more than a year since his last victory, which felt even longer considerin­g he failed to make the FedEx Cup playoffs and fell out of the top 50 in the world for the first time since 2011.

One week, and two big shots, changed everything.

Garcia hit a 5-wood that barely cleared a bunker and set up an eagle putt from just inside 4 feet to tie for the lead, and he won the Sanderson Farms Championsh­ip with an 8-iron to 30 inches for birdie on the final hole.

Tour de France runner-up Primoz Roglic won the Liège-BastogneLi­ège single-day classic on Sunday after rival Julian Alaphilipp­e celebrated too soon.

To add insult to injury for world champion Alaphilipp­e, he was then penalized for an irregular sprint and dropped from second to fifth. That was for swerving into the path of Marc Hirschi during the frenetic final sprint of the 6 ½-hour race.

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