[Sport] LaLiga SmartBank - Second Division Rayo-Albacete, longest game in history ... six months later it will be played

[Dr.Drako]

Rayo-Albacete will become the longest game in the history of professional football in Spain. It started on December 15, 2019, was interrupted in the break by the insults to Zozulia and will resume today, Wednesday June 10, 2020, exactly five months and 26 days later. In addition, it will be the first official match to be played in the Spanish League after the break due to the coronavirus. Two records that will go down in football history and that will be given in the strangest league in the world. The longest precedent is found in an Osasuna-Madrid that began in El Sadar on 01-28-1989, stopped in the minute 43 with 1-0 on the scoreboard (goal of Pizo Gómez) and ended in La Romareda three months and five days later, specifically on 03-05-1989 with 1-1 (Hugo Sánchez, curiously his goal number 100 in First) . On the benches were Pedro Mari Zabalza and Leo Beenhaker. There have been almost six months of resolutions, allegations and various appeals that have kept the resumption in the air. On February 19 it was scheduled to be disputed, but it was postponed when the TAD granted the precautionary and Competition to leave the end of the crash undated.The sanitary measures imposed because of COVID-19 that entail the obligation to hold the meeting behind closed doors , together with the urgencies to finish the League as soon as possible, have precipitated the decision to end the game once and for all.The match will begin in the 46th minute with one less man for the Albacete of the debutant Lucas Alcaraz, as midfielder Eddy Silvestre He was sent off at the end of the break in the game started in December and corresponding to matchday 20. Zero to zero on the scoreboard The uncertainty is total. The match stopped with 0-0 on the scoreboard and both teams need victory, Madrid to get closer to the promotion positions and the La Mancha to get away from the relegation zone. And the state of form of both squads is a complete mystery. After three months without playing soccer, where there has not been a single training match against the subsidiary, even the coaches themselves do not know what they will find in these 45 minutes. Of course, it will be a good touchstone for both and, above all, to capture feelings for the 11 final matches that would remain to finish the competition.


 

Many 'substitutes' Lucas Alcaraz will have to put a 'rare' eleven, since the coach will not be able to count on Eddy Silvestre (expelled in the first half of the Vallecas game), who are joined by: Querol, Jon Erice, Diego Caballo, Sergio Sánchez, Chema Núñez and Maikel Mesa, all of them winter reinforcements. Winter reinforcements, to the stands In Rayo, the clash will miss Qasmi, Juan Villar, Isi, De Frutos and Santa María, winter signings; in addition to Mario Suárez, who at that time was serving a penalty for a card cycle. That leaves Mr. Paco Jémez in the picture. He has no center forwards. The only new face: Alcaraz On the bench for Albacete, in the suspended game in Vallecas, was Luis Miguel Ramis. The mister was dismissed and. instead, the La Mancha club signed the experienced Lucas Alcaraz. The man from Granada will lead the Belmonte team this afternoon, so this meeting will start with a coach and end with a different one. All eyes will be on Zozulia. Albacete will be safe in Madrid, since the security of the stadium and the Police will be very attentive to that everything happens with total normality. Without any doubt, Zozulia will be the most 'guarded' person outside the Vallecas stadium.