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DOHA, Qatar - Massimiliano Allegri has a shot at his first title with Juventus when it faces Napoli in Mondays rearranged Italian Supercup.Allegri, who was fired from AC Milan in January, replaced Antonio Conte in the summer and has enjoyed a positive start at Juventus, which heads into the winter break three points clear at the top of Serie A.This is our last game of the year and our third target for the campaign after qualifying for the last 16 of the Champions League and remaining top of the Serie A table, Allegri said.Allegri steered AC Milan to victory in 2011 in the traditional season opener between the Serie A champions and the Italian Cup winners.This will be the seventh time that the Supercup has been played abroad. It was held in Washington, D.C., in 1993, in Tripoli, Libya in 2002, New Jersey in 2003 and Beijing on three occasions — 2009, 2011 and 2012.Here are some things to know about the Italian Supercup:___BENITEZ UP FOR THE CUPNapoli may be considered underdogs against a formidable Juventus team seemingly on the march to a fourth successive Serie A title, but coach Rafa Benitez has a great record in cup competition.Benitez steered Valencia to the UEFA Cup, guided Liverpool to the FA Cup and UEFA Super Cup as well as the Champions League, and also won the Europa League at Chelsea.Even during his short time at Inter Milan, Benitez lifted the Italian Supercup as well as the Club World CupNapoli are among the top 10 European teams when its a one-off game, which they have already proved in the Champions League last year, Juventus captain and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said. They bring the best out of themselves in these situations.We have great respect and the right amount of concern, but want to impose our play on the game and attack from the start.___RECORD HOLDERSJuventus, which has won the past two Supercups, has a superb record of its own in the competition.It currently holds the joint record number of victories and would move clear of AC Milan with a seventh win on Monday.Napoli has only won it once, in 1990, when it stunned Juventus with a 5-1 triumph.___CONTROVERSYNapoli will be keen to avoid a repeat of the controversy which overshadowed Juventus 4-2 victory when the two sides met in the competition two years ago.The match swung Juventus way when Napoli had Goran Pandev and Juan Zuniga sent off in the last five minutes of regular time.Napolis coach at the time, Walter Mazzarri, and club president Aurelio De Laurentiis were also dismissed for their protests and the club was so enraged that it boycotted the trophy presentation. 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"Thats our goal.AKRON, Ohio -- The PGA Tour rebutted a published report Friday that Dustin Johnson has been suspended for failing a drug test. Johnson said in a vague statement issued by his management company that he would take a leave of absence effective immediately to seek professional help for "personal challenges." The announcement Thursday brought an abrupt end to his PGA Tour season, knocking him out of the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup. Golf.com reported Friday that the tour suspended Johnson for six months. It cited an unidentified source as saying Johnson failed a drug test for the third time. "With regards to media reports that Dustin Johnson has been suspended by the PGA Tour, this is to clarify that Mr. Johnson has taken a voluntary leave of absence and is not under a suspension from the PGA Tour," the tours statement said. It was rare for the tour to comment on any matters related to potential discipline. On Thursday, after Johnson announced his leave of absence, the only statement from the tour was that it had "nothing to add" and that it wished him well and looked forward to his return. The PGA Tour began drug testing in July 2008. One year later, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was asked to confirm that there had been no positive tests in the first year from either recreational or performance-enhancing drugs. He drew a distinction between the two. "I said we have had no positive tests with respect to performance enhancing. We may have had somee test results that trouble us in other areas that we treat in a different bucket," Finchem said in July 2009.dddddddddddd"But we dont publicize those. We treat those as conduct unbecoming. If we get a test like that, we will consider it conduct becoming, and what are our choices? We can suspend a player. We can fine a player. We can do both of those and put a player into treatment." Johnson is not the first player to take a leave of absence. John Daly announced in September 1994 that he was taking the rest of the year off because of "mental and physical" problems. In announcing Dalys decision, Finchem repeatedly used the word "voluntary," but said the decision was reached after numerous meetings between Daly and the tour. Daly said Friday evening he could not recall details from 20 years ago. He said of Johnson, "I hope hes all right." Daly most recently was suspended in 2008 following a tumultuous year of off-course incidents. He called The Associated Press to say he had been suspended for six months because "Id rather be honest, especially with the fans." The tour, told that Daly had confirmed his suspension, declined comment citing its longstanding policy on not discussing discipline. Meanwhile, the PGA of America issued a new Ryder Cup points list Friday that removed Johnson from the standings. He had been No. 5, virtually certain to be an automatic selection when qualifying ends after the PGA Championship next week. 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