Leganés try not to go quietly as La Liga returns to Covid-ravaged city | Sid Lowe
15-Jun-2020 16:47:59 | The Guardian
Having endured the toughest time of any city in Spain, the football team immediately found themselves up against it
Football is back. In the final second before it began again, with 22 men back in position after 98 days away, a voice among them gave one last instruction. “Play as if there were fans,” it said, but there were none.
In Sevilla, Granada, Valencia, Barcelona, Vigo, Palma, Bilbao, Madrid and San Sebastián, stadiums stood virtually silent. In the Spanish city hit hardest by the coronavirus it was quiet too, just birdsong and the sound of the ball, players shouting and the occasional siren from the fire station behind the stand. There should have been 11,454 people at Butarque for Leganés’ vital relegation clash with Valladolid on Saturday evening. There were 247.
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Athletic Bilbao 1-1 Atlético Madrid, Celta Vigo 0-1 Villarreal, Espanyol 2-0 Alavés, Granada 2-1 Getafe, Leganés 1-2 Real Valladolid, Mallorca 0-4 Barcelona, Real Madrid 3-1 Eibar, Real Sociedad 1-1 Osasuna, Valencia 1-1 Levante, Sevilla 2-0 Real Betis
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