The suspended Rayo Vallecano-Athletic Club will resume behind closed doors

The match of the eighth day of LaLiga EA Sports between Rayo Vallecano and Athletic Club, suspended last Saturday, October 10 due to the continuous throwing of objects onto the field of the Vallecas Stadium, will resume behind closed doors in the same venue, as ruled by the Single Competition Judge of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). In addition, the Madrid team must assume Athletic's travel expenses.

"The resumption of the meeting behind closed doors is resolved (...) on the date, time and place established by the National Professional Football League in general coordination with the National Sports Office of the General Commissariat of Citizen Security of the National Police," states the resolution published this Saturday. In the same document, the judge points out that the match will be played without fans as a preventive measure to guarantee security during the resumption.

In the 13th minute of the match played last Saturday in Vallecas, with the score at 0-0 and the Basque team prepared to take a corner kick, local fans began to throw objects onto the pitch while a banner was displayed with the slogan "Dam, the ball is in your court." The situation forced referee Sánchez Martínez to stop the game while the stadium workers removed paper planes and balls from the grass.

Furthermore, according to the referee's report of the match, the referee was forced to suspend the match because "the police could not guarantee the safety of the match."

Half an hour later, the meeting resumed. However, as soon as the ball was put back into play, the area of ​​one of the goals was filled with objects again. The referee stopped the match again and determined that, under these conditions, it could not continue.

Furthermore, Competition points out that players legally registered by the federation may be fielded, "whether or not they were fielded in the period played, and who, if they had been fielded, would not have been replaced or subsequently suspended by the disciplinary body as a consequence of said match."