The CD Numancia sent an email to the League on July 20 at 8:56 pm, stating that after hearing the suspension of the Deportivo – Fuenlabrada match, the club from Soria requested the celebration of their CD Numancia – CD Tenerife match. “on the same date and time as Deportivo – Fuenlabrada“
The full text of the email, which asks for the postponement of the Numancia match minutes before the scheduled time, and which argues this week the motto 'Liga de 24, ya', is as follows:
“According to the information note sent from LaLiga today, July 20, in which the suspension of the match corresponding to day 42 between Deportivo de la Coruña and C.F. Fuenlabrada is communicated, we express our total opposition to the celebration of the meeting between C.D. Numancia and C.D. Tenerife understanding that the rules of equality and integrity of the competition are being breached, requesting that our match be held on the same date and time as the match that will be played by Deportivo de la Coruña and C.F. Fuenlabrada “. It is signed by its president Moisés Israel Garzón.
The email, sent from the CD Numancia press department to the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, and with the signature of its president, Moisés Israel, affects the request of the Soria team that hours after the game and understanding that they were breaching according to them “the norms of equality”, led this club to request a League with 24 teams next season.
CD Numancia's request to create a Second Division with 24 teams after the incidents caused by the Fuenlabrada Case and the coronavirus, had this Friday the support of the president of the Junta de Castilla y LeónAlfonso Fernández Mañueco, who expressed “all his support for CD Numancia” in its fight for Liga 24, after the events of the last day.
“I have spoken with the president of the club and the mayor of the Soria capital to join forces so that Numancia can continue playing in Segunda“Fernández Mañueco said on his twitter account.
Moisés Israel, for his part, defends “a League of 24 now”, and in his last press appearance he stated that “there has been a serious adulteration of the competition” as the unified schedule was not met on the last day, which ended with the descent of Numancia to Segunda B.