«The last footballer arrived at the hotel at one-thirty.

They take you out of your house, you don't sleep, you don't train and the risk of injury is very high.

A couple of hours before the Getafe players stepped onto the Martínez Valero lawn, in the azulón team, still oblivious to the result, it sting (and a lot) everything they had had to experience since the postponement of their duel against Elche.

«They sent cars that our footballers ended up pushing due to the lamentable state of the asf

high

.

Where has it been seen?

If LaLiga is the employer's association, how does it allow one of its affiliates to compete in inferior conditions? ", They protested to this newspaper from the Getafense team, as has been written, without yet knowing the final score of a key match in the bottom of the table and that they would end up winning

1-3

, with comeback included.

They had concentrated on a hotel in Barajas and had taken the flight early Monday: «How are we going to play this game?

They have forced us and forced us to play a game without watching the videos or preparing anything, "they added in their angry protest.

At 7:00 p.m., the boys from

Bordalás

They would once again set foot on a soccer field with their hearts very warm for everything they had experienced in these intense days of storm, with Alfonso Pérez covered in snow and without a single training on his legs: "We thought sanity would prevail."

He

postponement of Atlético-Athletic

It led them to think and, also, to demand from the Getafe team a suspension of the clash that, this Monday, finally, two days later, was disputed. Betis had also hinted at the option of postponing their visit to

Huesca

, but finally he arrived at El Alcoraz to put the finishing touch to the day.

The weather conditions in the capital of Huesca were not much more benign than in Madrid, since at the time of the game it was five degrees below zero.

Fuenlabrada

He also had to fulfill his obligations in Gijón.

On Sunday he self-managed the search for a 4x4 of power according to what he was falling to pick up his players and take them to a hotel in the city.

Early on Monday, two buses (following the Covid protocol) took their players to Terminal 4 in Barajas.

There they saw how the flight was delayed and, with it, also the time of the meeting, which went from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

«They are not the best conditions.

We have not trained since Friday, and then we did it in a Fuenlabrada pavilion », they recalled from the southern entity of the Community of Madrid.

Although before getting on the plane, they left a message: "We are not going to cry or the club, there are people in the city who are having a worse time."

José Ramón Sandoval's team finally fell 2-1 at El Molinón.

"We arrived at 6 in the afternoon and we had a salad tupper," said the coach after the game, eager to forget the ordeal.

Permanent contact with Madrid

Two intricate pictures on a Monday football day marked, of course, by the storm Filomena.

However, since

The league

, where they have maintained silence despite the dust raised by the

Real Madrid trip to Pamplona

, on Monday the message was very clear.

"We have not endangered the safety of anyone," an employer spokesman told EL MUNDO.

From that shore they claimed to have been in permanent contact with the

Real Madrid

and, in no case, having pressured the Whites to play in El Sadar.

The recommendation is that the teams fly the day before, in addition, from the presiding body

Javier Tebas

, stated that their obligation is to offer help and solutions to all teams.

Hence the cars chartered on Sunday night to transport the Getafe players to the Barajas hotel or the suggestion to Madrid to fly from

Pamplona

to

Valladolid

and return home by road.

According to LaLiga, if there was a game that could not have been played, there would never be a loss of points.

"The clubs know what is at stake and we must try to keep the competition running," they said. At Atlético, which this Tuesday meets Sevilla at the Wanda Metropolitano, at 9:30 p.m. on one of the coldest nights Of the year, some of the players pulled their wits into training at the stadium, the first session on grass since Thursday.

So

Carrasco

,

Lemar

and

Vrsaljko

they flocked in the Fiat Panda

lent by a neighbor of the Belgian extreme.

Others had to go to rescue the club at home, aboard robust SUVs.

It was the first joint session in several days.

A part of the staff had not even been able to leave their homes to carry out some of the activities suggested outdoors by the

Profe Ortega

, your physical trainer.

“We were able to train at home on Saturday;

on Sunday one group could do it and the other did it at home too ... There is no excuse, "admitted Simeone. Meanwhile, Sevilla had to wait on the plane for two hours to travel to Madrid due to the air collapse of Barajas .

In the end, Lopetegui's team landed in the capital late at night and with a temperature of one degree below zero.

Because Filomena doesn't understand shields.

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