Barca game at Sevilla, Villarreal vs Alaves postponed | Inquirer Sports

Barca game at Sevilla, Villarreal vs Alaves postponed

/ 07:53 PM September 07, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Joan Gamper Cup - FC Barcelona v Juventus - Estadi Johan Cruyff, Barcelona, Spain - August 8, 2021 Barcelona's Martin Braithwaite celebrates scoring their second goal with Memphis Depay, Ronald Araujo and team mates

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football – Joan Gamper Cup – FC Barcelona v Juventus – Estadi Johan Cruyff, Barcelona, Spain – August 8, 2021 Barcelona’s Martin Braithwaite celebrates scoring their second goal with Memphis Depay, Ronald Araujo and team mates REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo

MADRID – Spain’s High Council for Sports (CSD) has postponed Barcelona’s game at Sevilla and Villarreal versus Alaves on Saturday following an appeal by the Spanish football league, La Liga.

The league had asked the Spanish FA (RFEF) to postpone the matches given the extended South American World Cup qualifying window put in place by FIFA to compensate for COVID-19 postponements this year.

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This meant that a number of players would not return to their clubs until Friday, 24 hours before they were due to play in La Liga matches.

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As both Barca and Villarreal are in Champions League action on Tuesday, they were required to play their domestic fixtures on Saturday.

However, the RFEF rejected La Liga’s request, meaning the league was forced to appeal to the CSD to get the two games postponed, with the governmental agency accepting the arguments and ruling in its favor.

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