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Ranieri backs Serie A resumption despite 'falsified championship'

Sampdoria head coach Claudio Ranieri said the delay in Serie A due to the coronavirus pandemic would result in "a falsified championship" but backed calls to allow the 2019-20 season to be completed.

Ranieri's men are 16th in the table and just one point clear of the relegation zone with 13 games left to play, and the Blucerchiati boss expressed doubts over whether he would be able to push his players to their maximum should the season resume.

The Italian government officially suspended all sporting events across the country indefinitely as part of its measures to address the pandemic, and Sampdoria president Massimo Ferrero said the Serie A season "must end here".