MADRID, 21 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Granada, Mallorca and Cádiz will play this Sunday for the last ticket to play next season in LaLiga SmartBank, with the Cadiz team as the one that has it the worst since it is the only one that does not depend on itself, while the Athletic Club needs to storm the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán to have a chance of being seventh and playing in the Conference League.

LaLiga Santander 2021-2022 closes this Sunday with its thirty-eighth and final day, where there is only one place at stake to accompany Levante and Deportivo Alavés to ‘hell’, and find out who will be the last representative in European competitions between Villarreal and Athletic Club.

In any case, the greatest drama will be centered on Nuevo Los Cármenes, El Sadar and Mendizorrotza, the three stadiums where, starting at 8:00 p.m., relegation will be decided, with Granada, Mallorca and Cádiz, separated only by the narrow margin of a point after a penultimate day that only smiled at the vermilion and the three playing against rivals with their homework done and without pressure.

This will undoubtedly be the start for the Andalusian team, which is the one that will begin to play its game in the ‘burn’. Sergio González’s men were unable to beat Real Madrid and Mallorca’s victory against Rayo Vallecano condemned them to the penultimate place in the standings.

A few weeks ago, the abyss seemed ‘distant’ from the cadistas after beating Elche, but they could only add one point from the last six and the outlook has been complicated. Cádiz knows that the only thing that will surely be worth it is the victory against a Deportivo Alavés already relegated, but that they will want to offer their fans a victory before assaulting the challenge of returning to the First Division. The triple tie at 37 points would not be worth it either and the tie only in the event that Granada lost.

The Andalusian team must beat the ‘babazorros’ and then hope that Mallorca or Granada do not do so to achieve salvation. For this, Sergio González will probably not make too many changes with respect to the offensive eleven that he had against Real Madrid, except for the entry of Iza Carcelén for the injured Carlos Akapo and the possible return of Iván Alejo.

Julio Velázquez, for his part, does not plan to make many changes to the Alavés eleven in search of what would be an already insufficient fourth victory in a row at Mendizorrotza. The great threat for the cadistas will be the striker Joselu Mato.

Mallorca will play for salvation in El Sadar, the first ‘home’ in Spain of its current coach, the Mexican Javier Aguirre, a coach who left a very good memory in Pamplona and who even left Osasuna fourth in the 2005 season- 2006.

The ‘Vasco’ will now try to get the Balearic team to achieve a salvation that they could not grant Leganés two seasons ago when they reached the last matchday also with salvation options, which went away due to a draw.

Matched on 36 points with Cádiz, Mallorca is clear that they cannot speculate and that they need to tie up the three points so as not to be prey to nerves if their rival meets in Vitoria. It seems that Aguirre will not touch what has worked for him in recent games, with three central defenders and the possible entry of last Sunday’s hero, Abdón Prats, up.

Osasuna mainly has at stake the possibility of finishing ninth in the standings and will try to leave sentimentality behind only to bid farewell to an emblem like captain Oier Sanjurjo, who will play his last match as a ‘rojillo’ at El Sadar.

Finally, the one that has it ‘best’, due to its point of advantage, is Granada, which will also be the only one of the three involved who have in their favor the fact of playing with the support of their fans and also against a rival like Espanyol that has only added two points from the last 18, that has only won once away from home and that will play without Raúl de Tomás.

The Nasrid team hopes not to fail when all the odds give them the favorite to stay, although they must win to avoid nerves since the draw only guarantees them to be in the First Division for one more year if Mallorca and Cádiz do not win.

Aitor Karanka’s team saw their streak broken since the arrival of the Vitorian with their defeat at the Benito Villamarín, but they will want to become strong at the Nuevo Los Cármenes to suffer the least expected hardship. Frenchman Maxime Gonalons is doubtful, but Venezuelan Darwin Machís is ready.

The other stadiums in which there will be something at stake on this final Sunday will be at the Camp Nou and at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán where the seventh place will be elucidated mainly between Villarreal, the current holder and who plays against FC Barcelona, ??and Athletic Club that is measured against Sevilla.

The Biscayan team is one point behind the ‘Yellow Submarine’ in the fight to be the first Spanish team in the Conference League and needs to defeat Sevilla and Unai Emery’s team do not do so, or draw and their rival does not score against those of Xavi Hernandez.

The duel will also be marked by the possibility that it will be the last match on their respective benches for Julen Lopetegui, who will miss the match due to suspension, and Marcelino García Toral; and because of the options that the Andalusian team still has to finish third, if it scores more points than Atlético de Madrid.

At home, the main doubt will be whether or not the Moroccan goalkeeper Bono will play, otherwise Zamora would be the championship, while in the visitors Berenguer and Villalibre, due to the injured Nico Williams and Raúl García, would be the news, although his coach did not completely rule out the Navarrese.

Finally, on Sunday it will be completed with an inconsequential duel between Elche and Getafe, tied on 39 points and who will try to end the season with a victory that could make them move up a position. Those of the newly renewed Francisco have not achieved it in May and have lost three in a row and those of Quique Sánchez Flores have gone five days without losing, with four draws in a row and only one goal conceded.

Elche – Getafe. Cuadra Fernández (Balearic C.) 17.30.

Alaves – Cadiz. Sánchez Martínez (C.Murciano) 20.00.

Granada – Spanish. Hernández Hernández (C. Las Palmas) 20.00.

Osasuna-Mallorca. Soto Grado (C.Riojano) 20.00.

FC Barcelona-Villarreal. Munuera Montero (C.Andaluz) 22.00.

Real Sociedad – Athletic. Gil Manzano (C.Extremeño) 22.00.

Seville – Athletic Club. From Cerro Grande (C. Madrid) 22.00.

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