Day 1 of LaLiga | Schedules, match results and summary | Sports

A new season of the League starts this Friday with the first day of the domestic competition. Almería and Rayo Vallecano will have the honor of inaugurating the campaign and Sevilla and Valencia will follow them in the second game of the day on Friday night. Real Madrid visits Athletic on Saturday with the recent loss of Thibaut Courtois, who will miss most of the season with a torn cruciate ligament. Barcelona, ​​current champion of the League and with the intention of continuing to strengthen itself in the last weeks of the market, will visit Getafe on Sunday. Atlético de Madrid will receive the recently promoted Granada on Monday, to close the day.

Almería – Rayo Vallecano (Friday 11, 7:30 p.m., Movistar LaLiga)

Almería and Rayo Vallecano have the honor of inaugurating the 2023/24 season of the League. The Andalusian team will play for the second consecutive year in the highest category of Spanish football, after fighting for salvation for a good part of last season. Francisco Rodríguez makes his debut on the Rayo Vallecano bench after the departure of Andoni Iraola, who brushed the European positions with the Vallecas team last season.

Seville – Valencia (Friday 11, 22.00, DAZN)

Sevilla and Valencia will have a first game of the season marked by the high temperatures that are expected in the Andalusian capital. The people of Seville did not have a great performance last season in the domestic competition, but they were crowned champions of the Europa League for the seventh time. Mendilibar’s men hope to improve their results in the League while competing for the Champions League. Valencia, for its part, seeks to forget the bad results of the previous campaign, in which relegation was played until the last day.

Real Sociedad – Girona (Saturday 12, 5:00 p.m., DAZN)

Real Sociedad begins the season against Girona, but the Basque team has its sights set on the Champions League. Imanol’s men earned fourth place in the League, which is worth a ticket to the highest European competition. Real Sociedad have lost David Silva, who announced his retirement after tearing his cruciate ligament, but he will be looking to repeat last season’s achievement. Girona, for its part, faces the season with the desire to surprise again as much as last year, when many considered it a candidate for relegation.

Las Palmas – Mallorca (Saturday 12, 7:30 p.m., DAZN, GOL Play)

A newly promoted Unión Deportiva Las Palmas welcomes Mallorca for their first game of their return to the First Division. The yellows achieved direct promotion to the highest competition in Spanish football and, although they are not new to the League, their main objective for the season is permanence. Mallorca, the other island team in the competition, finished in the top half of the table last season and aspires to improve that result.

Athletic v Real Madrid (Saturday 12, 21.30, Movistar LaLiga)

Real Madrid returns to the competition seeking to recover the throne of the League that it gave up last season. Ancelotti faces his last season of contract on the white bench, and will do so without Benzema, who will play in Saudi Arabia, and without Courtois, seriously injured one day before the start of the competition. Athletic will be the rival of the whites in its premiere. The Basque team was left out of the European positions last season and this will be their main objective this season.

Celta – Osasuna (Sunday 13, 5:00 p.m., Movistar LaLiga)

Celta is another of the teams that fought for permanence until the end of last season and wants to start the new campaign on the right foot. With Rafa Benítez as the new coach, the Galician team aspires to improve its results from last season. Osasuna will be Celta’s first rival, a team that this year will play in the Conference League and that gave a surprise by reaching the final of the last Copa del Rey.

Villarreal – Betis (Sunday 13, 7:30 p.m., Movistar LaLiga)

Villarreal and Betis face each other in the restart of the League. The two teams will play in the Europa League this season and last season they starred in the fight to get into European positions. The yellow team has lost some important names such as Pau Torres, who went to Aston Villa with Unai Emery, or Samu Chukwueze, now at Milan, although it has been strengthened with players like Sorloth, Ben Brereton and Denis Suarez. At Betis, on the other hand, it has been Isco who has caused the biggest stir with his recent arrival.

Getafe – Barcelona (Sunday 13, 9:30 p.m., DAZN)

Barcelona visit Getafe in their first game of the season. The current champion of the League, who still hopes to strengthen himself further in the last weeks of the transfer market, faces the Madrid team looking to start the competition on the right foot. Getafe hopes to improve on their results from last season, in which they came close to relegation and achieved salvation with a margin of just two points.

Cádiz – Alavés (Monday 14, 7:30 p.m., DAZN)

Cádiz faces the recently promoted Alavés at the start of the League. The Basque team returns to the First Division after overcoming the play off promotion last season. The Andalusian team, who managed to stay on the last day after much suffering, is looking for a victory at home that will allow them to start the new campaign on the right foot.

Atlético de Madrid- Granada (Monday 14, 9:30 p.m., Movistar LaLiga)

Atlético de Madrid wants to continue the great streak that ended last season and compete for the league championship from the beginning. The rojiblancos, despite their disastrous time in Europe, had a great second round in which they were on the verge of taking second place from Real Madrid. Now, Simeone’s men return reinforced and ready to start from scratch, with their sights set on all competitions. Granada will be the first rival of the season. The Andalusian team, recently promoted, returns to the top competition with the confidence of having been proclaimed champion of the Second Division.

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