MADRID (AP) – With or without Lionel Messi, Barcelona already knows that he will start his home season against Villarreal at the end of September.
The Spanish league announced their schedule on Monday, and the first circular is scheduled for the weekend of September, but Barcelona and others who played later last season will have some of their postponed matches so they have time to prepare.
All matches will continue to be played in empty stadiums.The league was hopeful that at least some enthusiasts could participate in the matches, but Spain is suffering from involving a new wave of coronavirus cases.
Messi, who said last week in Barcelona that he wanted to leave, skipped on Monday on Monday on the first day of the team’s formation because he had already been away on Sunday while the team had undergone coronavirus tests at the club’s school.a clause that allows him to let it loose at the end of the season, but Barcelona said the clause had expired and needs the wonderful Argentine to stay at least until the end of his contract in June 2021.
There is no sign of the length of the dispute, as neither the club nor the player seems to make concessions.
Barcelona’s first match would have opposed elche’s promotion at Camp Nou, the opposite of Athletic Bilbao.
The first classic opposed to Real Madrid is positioned at the end of October, also at the Camp Nou, and on April 11 in Madrid.
Real Madrid, which also resumed training on Monday, will make their Real Sociedad debut in the second circular, only that the fitting of the first Madrid circular was postponed because it had not reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
Atletico Madrid has won the first two days and will start against Granada at home.
The league is expected to end in May 2021.
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