The Cup will have to wait

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Real Sociedad will not play at all this Thursday in the first round of the Copa del Rey scheduled against Jove Español de San Vicente of the Tercera RFEF, at Rico Pérez in Alicante. The terrible damage caused by DANA, especially in Valencia but also in other parts of the southern part of Spain, prompted the General Directorate of Sports of the Generalitat Valenciana to postpone the meeting until the end of this Wednesday. The Spanish Football Federation announced this and pointed to “meteorological reasons” as the reason, although Alicante is actually better than other cities, and it has not rained on Wednesday and there is no forecast for it to happen on Thursday.

The general situation, however, is very serious in some municipalities and strangely competing in Alicante, only 100 kilometers from where the rain destroyed everything, including more than 90 human lives. There was official mourning for three days. Therefore, the suspension is intended to have more to do with unity and respect than the actual rain that might occur. Throughout Wednesday, the CEO of Jove Español and Real told this newspaper that the match will be held, but it has been postponed.

At least Real Sociedad was not yet in Alicante when the decision was made, as the club had planned a round trip during the day, leaving by plane from Pamplona on Thursday morning to return at dawn, once the meeting The San Sebastian team saved the trip.

Serious problem with the calendar

Along with the Real match, six other matches were postponed, some scheduled for Wednesday and others for Thursday. Chiclana-Osasuna, Parla-Valencia, Ejea-Hércules, Pontevedra-Levante, Manises-Getafe and Xerez-Ceuta had to be moved to the calendar and, in fact, some already have new dates.

Real are not among them, with a very complicated calendar in the new and longer Europa League. There are no free dates before the scheduled date for the second round of the Cup, back on December 4, which is a big problem.

La Real has to visit Viktoria Plzen and host Ajax in European competition, occupying two interweekly dates, in addition to weekend league commitments and the inappropriate national team break in November. The Federation indicated yesterday that the new date will be announced soon but all indications are that a Real league match will have to be postponed so that the Cup does not lose its roadmap, which is already tight on dates due to the remodeling of European competitions . and further complicate the national football calendar. In this way, it will only complicate Real and the rival of the match that was decided to be postponed. The rivalry against Barça in Anoeta next week, the San Mamés derby scheduled for November 24, after the break, or the match against Betis without a date or time on the weekend of December 1, are candidates. LaLiga had to move, in that case advance, a league match between Mallorca and Real in September because it coincided with the premiere of the Europa League. There was a free date and no problems, now it will be more complicated to rearrange everything.

A forced break will come in handy, now

In the context of tragedy, this is the least. But La Real will enjoy a forced break that will be good for them to alleviate their physical and footballing problems, even now. With the Cup match postponed before traveling to Alicante, Imanol He will have his entire squad with Zubieta for a whole week, something not uncommon in these times of continental, league and cup competition.
The club gave up the work plan at the last minute. The squad will leave on Thursday and train in Zubieta on Friday and Saturday before traveling to Seville, where they will play at 6:30 pm A difficult and important visit, and where Real will have three days rest than their rivals, who played the Cup on Wednesday in Madrid.
Imanol He always regretted, though he never used it publicly as an excuse, that he barely had any real training sessions between all the games, travel and recovery. Now he will have a few days with his columns available and healthy to rehearse the things he sees need to be corrected, perform more realistic simulations with Zubieta and better prepare, on the green and all, a match which is very important for the Txuri Urdin team.
Of course, it’s all make or break right now but once the match is moved that part of the calendar will be more complicated. We have to see if Real are better than they are now.

Olasagasti protects the ball against Juanlu in Sevilla-Real Sociedad

Minute of silence on Sunday in Seville

The human and material damage caused by DANA in Spain was devastating and many Cup matches were eventually suspended. During the playing, a minute of silence was held and will be held in honor of the victims. LaLiga also announced yesterday that, in conjunction with the RFEF, there will also be a minute’s silence for the First and Second weekend matches. At the last minute, League F joined.

Source: La Verdad

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