• LaLiga: Threat of collapse

The threat of collapse that filled the immediate future of Spanish football with clouds began to give way to a Thursday of relief. After the three confirmed positive cases in the squads of Sevilla, Almería and Zaragoza, all the PCR test results known during yesterday were negative . In the case of the team from Seville, and after two negatives from all the players and employees except for Nemanja Gudelj -asymptomatic and homebound-, they returned to work with individual sessions. Almería also did it, who as a precautionary measure will avoid training in pairs for the time being. In both clubs, tests will continue to be carried out in the coming days to guarantee the health of all its components.

Only the results of the PCR performed on the Zaragoza squad remain to be known . The footballers of Víctor Fernández went individually to the sports city Maña and, without getting off the car, underwent tests, the results of which they will know on Friday. The club blanquillo did report that no one else in the entity has presented symptoms compatible with the Covid-19, as did the footballer who has tested positive, whose identity has not been revealed and who "has evolved satisfactorily" since his confinement. domiciliary.

The results obtained from the laboratory allow, on the one hand, that Sevilla can continue with their preparation for the round of 16 of the Europa League , which will take place next Thursday against Rome at the neutral headquarters of Duisburg (Germany) ). And, nationally, it serves not to increase the accumulation of already existing obstacles so that the promotion playoff to First can be played. A headache still without solution but that must be solved yes or yes, because a third team must accompany Huesca and Cádiz to the highest category next year.

Back home from Fuenlabrada

The RFEF Competition Committee has yet to rule on the proposal sent by LaLiga that Elche be the one to enter the semifinals for promotion, thus definitively canceling the pending Deportivo-Fuenlabrada. The process is being delayed by the recusal of the investigating judge formulated by the Madrid team and already rejected by the Committee itself, which is who had appointed him. Yesterday, said judge again summoned several members of the Fuenlabrada to take their statements and today there could already be at least one precautionary measure that sheds some light.

However, Friday is also a key day in all this controversy for another reason: the mandatory quarantine imposed by the Xunta de Galicia -as the highest health authority in La Coruña- on the players, technicians and employees of the Fuenlabrada that ends They were at the hotel when the case broke out. Those who have tested negative in all PCR tests - the total number of positives remains at 26, 18 in La Coruña and 8 in Madrid, with minimal symptoms - who have been practicing these two weeks will be able to return home today. Among them, there are enough professional players to play a game -the minimum is seven-, so Fuenlabrada demands that their pending duel against Deportivo be played starting on Sunday. In it, it should be remembered, a draw would serve to take away from Elche the last place in the playoff.

LaLiga, for its part, awaits events, since for the moment everything is in the hands of the Competition Committee and that, of course, no more positives arise that make the closing of the competition even more difficult. Tightened by the calendar -the playoffs are four days, so it takes at least ten days to play them-, the employers are urgently urged for an immediate solution so as not to dive into the second half of August without yet knowing who will play the year they It comes in First, whose resumption is set for September 12.

Concentrations for promotion

To try to avoid further risks of contagion, the body chaired by Javier Tebas is considering requesting clubs and players to concentrate on hotels during their participation in the qualifying rounds for promotion. As reported yesterday, LaLiga is also around the idea, much more radical and complex, to simplify the format: semifinals and final single match in the same venue.

The other front that LaLiga has open is the sanction procedure that the Xunta de Galicia has initiated against it and against Fuenlabrada "for non-compliance with protocols and for causing a risk to public health," as its own president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo explained yesterday. . Declarations that, by form and substance, supported the employers: «It is surprising that today, when ten days have passed since the process began, no request for information on the procedure has been received by the Xunta de Galicia and, what is worse, our institution is tried publicly, without even having the opportunity to defend itself or provide a single document ».

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