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It should be remembered, now that everything is over, at what point was the League when the health nightmare came into our lives, back in March. Broadly speaking, Barcelona was the leader , Real Madrid capsized, Real Sociedad and Getafe were fighting for the Champions League, Atlético feared being out of it for the first time in many years and Valencia and Villarreal were deflating in their aspirations for European positions. And Granada, of course, already saw more than achieved its goal of continuing one more year in First Division. At the bottom, yes, everything was as it finally has been, with Mallorca, Leganés and Espanyol losing the category and Celta saved by the bell.

11 days have passed between that reality of football of all life and the one that ended on Sunday, without an audience still in the stands and with protocols that continue to generate strangeness. And in this rare interim, no team has been more affected than Getafe by José Bordalás , who had just eliminated Ajax in the Europa League with prodigious solvency. Since the return of the competition, however, the Azulones have been the third worst team in the League with 8 points in 11 games, just ahead of Alavés and Espanyol. Nothing has gone right for the Madrid team, with a last match in which the VAR canceled three goals and in which Mata, pure reliability, missed a decisive penalty after 25 successes in a row in his career. His penance is to stay out of Europe next season.

But before, it will be necessary to see how Getafe assimilates the slump before resuming the competition in just two weeks against Inter Milan , in the eighth round of the Europa League and a single match. And what impact could it have on the continuity of Bordalás, with a current contract but also with numerous siren songs, including those that come from Mestalla.

Real, Barça, Valencia ...

Getafe ended up losing the Europa League place against Real Sociedad, perhaps the second team that has suffered the most in these weeks, having chained 10 victories in their previous 12 games. The numerous injuries he suffered - Odegaard, Isak, Illarra, Sangalli ... -, his lack of confidence and the vertigo at the challenge that lay before him ended up suffocating the young group of Imanol Alguacil. From aspiring with solid arguments to third place, he went on to tie sixth on the last day, with an agonizing goal from Januzaj at the end of his visit to the Metropolitan. And even with the Cup final against Athletic pending, of course.

Apart from the margin, those who faced this final stretch deserve amendment and did not find it. Starting with Barça, whose deficit football has ended up succumbing to the tremendous strength of Real Madrid. Valencia also did not find enough stability to overcome a season that began crooked by the crisis caused by the removal of Marcelino . Athletic, despite its attempts to re-engage with Europe, has ended with a bad taste in the mouth after two consecutive defeats against Leganés and Granada. And what to say about Celta, saved again by a carom, this time against Leganés, where Javier Aguirre will not continue, who was left to a VAR review to achieve the miracle of salvation. Calleja, by the way, will not continue in Villarreal, where Unai Emery will take command.

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