Valencia Match Date Must Be Moved by One Day / Real Madrid Furious: You Did Barça a Favor, but Wronged Us!

Real Madrid is angry about its match date with Valencia, saying that all Spanish teams in the Champions League play a day later in the league except Real Madrid.

According to Sport Se, the controversial planning of the Spanish league organization for the twelfth week of La Liga and the short distance between Real Madrid's game after the European trip to Greece, with its next game in the league, has angered the technical staff and managers of this club.

Today, the Real Madrid convoy held the first training session before traveling to Italy for Wednesday night's match against Roma in the second week of the group stage of the Champions League. The Madrid players decided to do their final training at Camp Valdebas and avoid attending the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. A decision similar to last season when Xabi Alonso trained the team in Madrid to avoid being in the media's eyes. But the calmness of the Real camp was disturbed by the publication of the official schedule for the 12th week of La Liga and angered Mourinho and the managers.

Real Madrid have to face AAC of Greece on Wednesday, November 4th in Athens and the match will start at 18:45 local time. La Liga has scheduled this team's crucial match against Valencia for Saturday, November 7 at 21:00. Real Madrid's convoy will return to the Spanish capital on Thursday morning, and the coaching staff will practically only have Thursday evening and Friday's training session to prepare the team ahead of the difficult match against Valencia. According to the AS report, citing sources within the club, this decision has greatly upset the managers, players and Jose Mourinho himself.

What made the fire of Madrid's protest more intense is the obvious discrimination compared to other Spanish representatives in the European Champions League. All four other Spanish teams in the Champions League will hold their La Liga matches on Sunday, November 8. Real Betis will play in Elche at 14:00 on Sunday, Villarreal will host Getafe at 18:30, and the crucial match between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona will be held at 21:00 on the same night.

The strange thing is that the three teams Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and Villarreal will hold their European games a day earlier, Tuesday, November 3, and just at home against their opponents, but nevertheless they will compete in the league on Sunday. Barca hosts Aston Villa, Atletico hosts Bayern Munich and Villarreal takes on Paris Saint-Germain. Even Betis, which, like Real Madrid, will play on Wednesday night in Dortmund's field, will hold its La Liga match on Sunday.

Real Madrid insists that there is no reason or justification for La Liga's refusal to move the match against Valencia to Sunday. In the week after these matches, the national matches begin, and there are no midweek matches in the Champions League or Copa del Rey on the calendar. For this reason, giving the players one more day of rest would not put any pressure on the tournament table. From the point of view of Real managers, this La Liga decision is a disservice to Real and the health of its players, and has created a new crisis in the relationship between Real Club and the La Liga organization.