Real Madrid-Celta is delayed to Sunday 12-S at 9:00 p.m.

The return of Real Madrid to the Santiago Bernabéu is postponed one day. The League has delayed the match of the fourth day that faces the white team against Celta to Sunday, September 12 at 9:00 p.m.. The match was initially scheduled for 4:15 pm on Saturday 11. LaLiga has made this decision to mitigate the impact of the FIFA selection window, which runs until Thursday 9 and would prevent several South American internationals from arriving in time to play the League matches with their clubs.

LaLiga has made this decision due to the refusal of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS, for its acronym in French) to admit the precautionary measures that the employer requested last Friday against the stoppage of national teams that begins tomorrow. FIFA extended the window to three dates for the CONMEBOL teams to recover qualifying matches for the Qatar 2022 World Cup that were postponed due to the pandemic. The matches, scheduled for Thursday, September 9 (early morning from Thursday to Friday, 10 in Spain), would prevent many South American internationals from joining their clubs in time to play matchday four..

Madrid is affected in four of its internationals. Militao, Casemiro and Vinicius are summoned by Brazil, whose last match is against Peru at dawn from Thursday the 9th to Friday the 10th at 02:30 in Maracanã. Two hours earlier, Valverde meets Uruguay against Ecuador in Montevideo. Ancelotti was asked about this question after the match against Betis. “The players arrive on Saturday morning. It seems impossible to me that they can play. It is not only the problem of Real Madrid, but of many teams,” answered the Italian.

In addition to Real Madrid-Celta, LaLiga has also delayed Espanyol-Atlético, which will be played on Sunday, September 12 at 2:00 p.m. The two teams from Madrid have their first Champions League match on Wednesday 15. Madrid in Milan against Inter and Atleti host Porto at the Wanda. Regarding the three teams that make their debut in Europe on Tuesday, LaLiga will ask the RFEF Competition Committee to postpone sine die Villarreal-Alavés and Sevilla-Barcelona, ​​which were to be played on Saturday 11. The matches Levante-Rayo Vallecano, Athletic-Mallorca, Cádiz-Real Sociedad, Granada-Betis and Getafe-Elche also suffer changes in their schedules. Only the Osasuna-Valencia schedule remains.

In addition, LaLiga will charter charter flights available to the teams so that they can expedite the return of their internationals. The situation can be repeated in the October selection window, when the South American teams are also scheduled to play three games, extending the break until Thursday, October 13. It would affect the ninth day of the championship.

New schedules of the day 4 of LaLiga Santander

Saturday, September 11

18:30 Raise-Rayo Vallecano (Movistar LaLiga)
21:00 Athletic-Mallorca (Goal)

Sunday, September 12

14:00 Espanyol-Atlético (Movistar LaLiga)
16:15 Osasuna-Valencia (Movistar LaLiga)
18:30 Cádiz-Real Sociedad (Movistar LaLiga)
21:00 Real Madrid-Celta (Movistar LaLiga)

Monday, September 13

20:00 Getafe-Elche (Movistar LaLiga)
22:00 Granada-Betis (Movistar LaLiga)

Matches for which LaLiga requests postponement to the RFEF Competition Committee

Villarreal-Alaves
Seville-Barcelona