• Second: Depor-Fuenla, this Wednesday

Four long hours of a tense meeting to decide that Deportivo-Fuenlabrada has to be played and that it will do so tomorrow, Wednesday, August 5 at 8:00 p.m. At least that is what the Competition Committee resolved 18 days after the match was suspended, as a good part of the Madrid squad tested positive for Covid. The claims of Deportivo and Elche were not attended to , harmed then by the suspension of that match and now by decision of the Spanish Federation. A draw from Fuenlabrada would get the illicitians from the promotion playoff . That is if the two teams get to jump onto the Riazor lawn.

The Galicians chose to challenge LaLiga and, in addition to taking days threatening not to appear at the meeting , yesterday they did not even attend the summons to undergo the PCR tests provided in the health protocol of the competition for 48 hours before the matches.

The decision was not easy for Competition, which received multiple pressures from those affected and did not heed the instructor's recommendation to award the three points to Deportivo. For the first time in two years, Competition did not unanimously make the decision . Vocals Pablo Mayor and Lucas Osorio spoke in favor of the party's dispute, while President Carmen Pérez opted for abstention, making it clear in the statement issued by the Spanish Federation.

The resolution, against which there is no recourse, set the date for the party but recalled that "at present an extraordinary procedure is being instituted against CF Fuenlabrada from which it could potentially derive (and without this implying any predetermination and in any sense the resolution of the procedure) a sanction that could even alter the result of the match on Wednesday ». This explanatory paragraph, however, is unlikely to be relevant to the outcome of the competition. The file, opened on July 22, remains unfinished, the Fuenlabrada has already seen how ordinary justice considers that it did not commit any crime against public health traveling with suspicions of contagion and, in addition, LaLiga has been particularly quick to confirm the dates for the playoffs .

The first tie will be played on Thursday 13 and Sunday August 16 and the second on August 20 and 23. In the choice of dates, according to the body chaired by Javier Tebas, the particular circumstance of Real Zaragoza was taken into account , which reported a positive by Covid in one of its players and has seen group training restricted.

Sandoval: "Justice has been done"

In Fuenlabrada, once the disease was over, they were ready to compete. “Justice has been done. We asked that at least it be played. We respect the protocols, we said two or three days ago that we were fit to play. We must go to A Coruña, play the game and earn the right to play the 'playoff'. The illusion cannot be removed from some players, ”explained the Fuenlabrada coach, José Ramón Sandoval , after learning of the decision, in which he did not see his team benefit. «We play one game less than Elche, we should play the same to have a balanced sport. We will not have more benefit, on the contrary. We come from a 20-day confinement in individual rooms, the players have had a hard time, "said Sandoval, who does not" think that a club like Deportivo does not show up. "

After days of crossings of communiqués, both Deportivo and Elche decided to ponder their position. If the Galicians do not appear in Riazor tomorrow, they are exposed to the administrative descent and, what may be even worse, to lose aid to the descent .

In Elche, they cling to the only remaining loophole: the federal file , which continues to be instructed and on which Competition has asked for speed. But in the offices of Martínez Valero they have spent a week watching the controversial suspended match and Pacheta's team in the playoff to a resolution that leaves Fuenlabrada, one point less than Elche, with everything in favor to fight for promotion .

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