New postponement: Rayo-Elche will be played in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas at 10:00 p.m.

Rayo-Elche de Copa has suffered a new postponement —The second one already—, after it was impossible to have everything ready to celebrate the match at the Ciudad Deportiva at 4:00 p.m. The work to clean the pitch was resumed early this morning and has been carried out against the clock, but there was no time to have the entire field cleared of snow. Hence, two hours before the meeting it was decided to change the location and schedule. Finally, it will be played in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas, at 22:00.

This round of 32 match was initially set today at the Vallecas Stadium (12:00), but the existing ice sheets in the grass forced to look for a Plan B in the afternoon of Thursday. Yesterday, Friday, the work to condition Field 5 —Of natural grass, where the first team usually trains— from the Ciudad Deportiva and play the match there. The RFEF gave the green light and was postponed until 4:00 p.m.. However, in the end, it will be played in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas (22:00), with a forecast of between three and six degrees below zero throughout the game.

The Fuenlabrada-Levante will be held on the same stage, the Ciudad del Fútbol, ​​at 6:00 p.m.. This is another of the three encounters that have been affected by the snowstorm that has particularly affected the Community of Madrid. Leganés-Sevilla also had to look for another new destination and has moved to the Wanda Metropolitano (20:00). In fact, Rayo himself was forced to exercise Wednesday and Thursday in Valdebebas due to the situation in which the Ciudad Deportiva was, fully covered.