• Suspension: Elche will fight for promotion

Through a tweet and press release. This is how they try to resolve many issues of high politics. This is how the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, tried to remedy the chaos caused in the Second Division after the outbreak of coronavirus in Fuenlabrada - with 28 positives and one hospitalized patient - who demonstrated the deficiencies of the protocols in the face of the pandemic.

Tebas, six days after the match that had to face the Madrid team with Deportivo in Riazor on the last day of the Second match was postponed, he decided to declare himself responsible for the mess. And thus deny any negligence of the Fuenlabrada after it continued with its displacement to Galicia despite accounting for four positives for Covid-19 the day before the trip. A fundamental aspect for hypothetical appeals or legal proceedings. «You followed [in Fuenlabrada] all the instructions the League gave you. The only person responsible for traveling to La Coruña is me, who made the decision. Nobody else".

Of course, all that was done by the president of the employer's association after transferring to the Competition Committee, an organ that depends on the Royal Spanish Football Federation, that the meeting should be suspended permanently. And that Elche, who depended on Fuenlabrada not winning Deportivo to maintain their sixth place, would be the one to play the promotion playoff to First .

Fuenlabrada and LaLiga spent Sunday afternoon crossing each other communications, thus exposing the lack of control of Spanish football before solving a problem that the First Division could get rid of.

Elche square

The employers relied on a first note from Fuenlabrada in which the club, in addition to expressing its willingness to play the match once its footballers recovered, opened the door to assume the definitive cancellation . So LaLiga accelerated and, in a note titled Acknowledgment to Fuenlabrada, announced that it was transferring to Competition its "agreement" to permanently suspend Riazor's game and grant Elche a promotion playoff slot.

That sat with a burned horn in the hotel in La Coruña where the Fuenlabrada expedition has been isolated in a plant since last Monday. So much so that the Madrid club - where Javier Tebas Llanas, son of the LaLiga president and secretary of the Fuenlabrada board of directors - works had no choice but makeup . Through another statement. In this one, the entity chaired by Jonathan Praena assured that he "does not give up" to play the match against Deportivo, although for this it would be necessary to wait for the first week of August.

It was not enough for the footballers, who reacted from their hotel by preparing their own statement in which, in addition to showing their "indignation", they demanded that their own club "defend the interests of the squad" to play the game. The players also threatened to take legal action "against the different institutions." The final decision, in any case, must be made by the Competition Committee of the Spanish Federation.

Deportivo also took the opportunity to react, as it was not even necessary to play against Fuenlabrada to consummate their descent to Second B. Something that the Galician club intends to avoid by understanding that the last day required the dispute of all simultaneous matches. Deportivo, through a statement, assured that LaLiga informed him this Sunday of "the opening of a 113-page disciplinary file at Fuenlabrada, begun on the 22nd", offering the Galician entity the possibility of presenting allegations and evidence before 3:00 p.m. this Monday, July 27.

Deportivo, who claims to feel the victim of an "outrage", recalled that he has initiated two procedures before the Spanish Federation "for non-compliance with the statutory and regulatory regulations in force."

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