Deportivo and Fuenllabrada were preparing to live a transcendent day with the relegation and the playoff at stake. The news jumped shortly before 7:30 p.m. with positives for Covid-19 detected in Fuenlabrada. While Deportivo arrived at the Riazor stadium to play, the Madrid team remained focused on their hotel. Then, telephones and a thousand conversations until the League and the Federation decided that Deportivo-Fuenlabrada was postponed, but that the rest of the day was disputed. The match will be vital for Fuenla, but inconsequential for a supportive Depor.
Deportivo did not depend on itself and the staff, concentrated in their hotel, stayed at the expense of their rivals and neither Lugo nor Albacete failed. The people of Lugo began with a loss, but in the second half they turned the scoreboard to achieve a 2-1 in the final stretch that gave them permanence. Albacete did the same, who beat the leader, Cádiz, thanks to a penalty in the 89th minute. The sum of both results sends Deportivo directly to Segunda B, a category in which he played for 40 years. Of course, at the expense of what may happen with the legal measures that the Coruña club has announced for not letting him play the game against Fuenlabrada.
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Fuenlabrada, meanwhile, will need a draw at Riazor to play the playoff. The victories of Elche (2-1) and Rayo Vallecano (1-2) force the azulones to get a point against Deportivo already mathematically relegated. The Fuenlabreños would have the same points as Elche, but the particular golaverage favors those of Sandoval who would conquer that sixth place and that would be another historical achievement after promoting to Segunda this season for the first time in its history.