Madrid (dpa)
The draw for the Spanish Football League for the 2021/22 season, the schedule of which was published today, Wednesday, resulted in the Barcelona team hosting the “Clásico” match in the first round against its arch-rivals Real Madrid.
The Camp Nou stadium will host the summit match between the two teams on October 24 in the tenth stage of the competition, while the return match will be held at the Santiago Bernabeu on March 20 of next year.
It remains only to wait to know the extent of Barcelona’s ability, which will start its season against Real Sociedad at the end of the week between 14 and 15 August, to keep its Argentine star Lionel Messi, whose contract with the Catalan team expires at the end of June.
Messi, 34, has not yet decided to commit to a new contract with Barcelona, but club president Joan Laporta confirmed his confidence in reaching an agreement. On the other hand, Real Madrid will open its season with a meeting with Deportivo Alaves outside its stadium, and the team also requested to hold another match outside its stadium at the beginning of the new season, in order to open the way for the completion of development work at the “Santiago Bernabeu”, which means that its Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti He will have to wait a little longer for his first home game since his return.
Atlético Madrid will start the campaign to defend its title with a confrontation outside its home team, Celta Vigo.
Real Madrid will host the first derby match in the capital against Atletico Madrid this season, which will be held next December, while the second round match, which is likely to be a decisive confrontation in the title struggle, will be on the eighth of next May.
Barcelona will conclude its season with a home match with Villarreal, while Real Madrid will host Real Betis, while Atletico Madrid will travel to meet Real Sociedad.
Today, Wednesday, also saw the setting of the final match of the King’s Cup, which will be held at the “La Cartuja” stadium in Seville on April 23 next year. With the exception of the last two phases, the matches of the 2021/2020 season were held without a public presence, due to the continuing impact of the emerging Corona virus crisis.
The Spanish Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, had confirmed earlier this month that the fans would be allowed to return to matches in the new season, despite the emergence of the new “delta” strain of the Corona virus in Europe, which may stop these efforts.
Last week, Javier Tebas, president of the Spanish League, had expressed his hope that the fans would return to fill the stadiums by next November.
“I think we can start the season with 60% of the stadium capacity, some areas in Spain will have more and some will have less, but by next November or December, we have to reach 100%,” Tebas explained on June 23.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/the-la-liga-draw-will-take-place-on-october-24-and-march-20/
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