La Liga calendar drama: problem of dates if Valencia – Real Madrid is canceled by DANA

The DANA causing a lot of trouble La Liga. The employers’ association, which has announced that there will be a minute’s silence at every game held this weekend for the victims of the storm, if the game is eventually called off. Valencia – Real Madridscheduled for this Saturday, November 2 (9:00 p.m.), at the stadium Mestalla.

Valencia CF, that he will not play his match this Wednesday The King’s Cup against him Speaking Schoolhas officially requested the cancellation of Real Madrid’s visit to his stadium. Given the serious damage done by DANA, on an infrastructural level, but above all vitally, the team believes that playing that game may not be the right thing to do.

When Valencia’s request arrives, LaLiga will examine how it will be done in these cases. However, the busy European football calendar creates a problem with dates that could leave the Valencia – Real Madrid game up in the air for a while.

And Real Madrid will not rest until the end of the year. The white team have three more rounds of the league level ahead of them between November and December. Champions League and eight from La Liga – counting on the progress of their game on day 19, against the Athleticsdue to the presence of both teams in the Spanish Super Cup-.

In the week of November 11 to 17, Real Madrid will have its first break, but it will be due to the international break that month, which will last until the return of the competition on the 22nd 23 and until January 2, a time given as a holiday for the teams and in which, a priori, games should not be played. On January 5th there will be a Copa del Rey match day, the round of 32 of which the Supecopa teams will already be part of.

Since then, Real Madrid will not have many weeks of games, if it is still alive in the Champions League and Copa del Rey, every 3-4 days. The Super Cup will be played indoors Arabia the week of January 6 to 12 and there will be a Cup round of 16 a week later (January 15). The Champions League, on the other hand, will hold its last two days of the league stage between January 21 and 29, while La Liga will not rest on the weekend.

What hope would La Liga have? If Real Madrid finish in the top eight of the Champions League stage – or are relegated – they will avoid playing the competition’s preliminary round before the round of 16, which will be played between February 12 and 19 February. Without games on those dates for Valencia, those two weeks will open the door to play the postponed game. Of course, it will depend on the place of the white team in the next European rounds.

Few dates

In the Old Continent many voices have been warning about the effect such a busy calendar would have on football players. Now, a disaster like the one caused by DANA in the Community Valencian and other areas of Spainthey can leave the La Liga game in suspense. This would have to be played during a holiday – the Christmas holidays – or remain in the air due to the progress of the teams in the other competitions, Copa del Rey (Valencia and Real Madrid) and Champions League (Real Madrid ).

In the worst case scenario, where Madrid play the preliminary round of the Champions League and then reach the final (May 31) and either the white team or Valencia reach the round final of the Copa del Rey, it was possible that only the days of the week would be left before the last day of the League (May 24-25) to play the postponed game. The DANA disaster highlights the problems of the current football calendar.