Osasuna has expressed its 'absolute disagreement' with the new date set for the match against Celta de Vigo, which will finally take place on August 27, and has considered that this decision harms the team. In a statement, the Pamplona-based team has shown 'its discontent with LaLiga and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for a change that harms the interests of the red and white team and ignores a previous agreement between clubs'. 'The Club Atlético Osasuna wants to express its absolute disagreement with the new date set for the Celta-Osasuna match, scheduled for this Sunday, August 16. The poor state of the pitch due to the presence of a fungus prevents the match from being played on the initially scheduled date, despite the efforts made by the local club, circumstances that Osasuna understands and comprehends, 'Osasuna has indicated. It has added that 'the logic of the situation, in which Osasuna and its fans are the most harmed, leads to seeking a new location for the match or setting a new date in which both parties are in agreement'. 'Both Celta and Osasuna agreed that the days 24 or 25 of September, coinciding with the selection break, was the indicated date to avoid overloading the calendar of both teams and allow the players to recover adequately in a sensitive period in terms of injuries, such as the start of a new season', Osasuna has stated. The Navarrese club has assured that both LaLiga and the RFEF were aware of the existence of this agreement between clubs. 'However, neither LaLiga nor the RFEF have been sensitive to the request made and have decided, unilaterally, that the match will be played on Thursday, August 27, forcing Osasuna to play a match on Monday, August 24, and another on Thursday, August 27, with travel included, without even considering the possibility of advancing the Osasuna-Levante match on August 24 to give more rest days', Osasuna has stated. In this sense, it has considered that 'the team most harmed by the suspension of the match due to causes totally unrelated to it is, once again, the most harmed in the new scheduling'. It has stated that the fact that a competition like LaLiga Spanish decides a Thursday, three days before a match, a postponement, 'follows the line of the usual last-minute movements in the calendar that we have unfortunately become accustomed to due to the lack of foresight and seriousness'. 'But that, in addition, both LaLiga and the RFEF ignore the existence of an agreement between clubs for the match, when Osasuna has been sensitive to the circumstances of Celta and had agreed with the Galician team a new date, is simply an unacceptable lack of respect', Osasuna has asserted. It has added that that 'lack of respect' is joined in this case 'by the lack of sensitivity to modify the scheduling of Osasuna-Levante or the Monday scheduling of the two first home matches this season'. 'There is no regulation, criterion, or explanation that can be given to justify that, in the face of a date agreed upon by the two involved clubs, a decision that harms the team that had already been harmed by the initial postponement is taken', Osasuna has emphasized. 'Nor is it that the decision is sold as an act 'in coordination with the clubs'. And all this, just a few days after the team is in a delicate situation due to the injury of Raúl Moro, who is currently sidoineado**'.
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Osasuna expresses disagreement with new Celta match date
Osasuna disagrees with the new date set for the match against Celta de Vigo, which will take place on August 27, and has considered that this decision harms the team.
