The game will be held on this day, as it cannot be held on Saturday or Sunday for safety reasons.
In the city of Seville, everything is lived with great intensity, especially football and Holy Week, which is why it has attracted attention that Seville will receive Celta on a day designated for the city, such as Good Friday.
Why is Sevilla vs. played on Good Friday? Celtic from LaLiga 2022-2023
The fact that a match is played in Seville on Good Friday is an unusual situation. Andalucia’s capital is usually paralyzed during Holy Week, one of the most famous in the world, and this has usually meant that the celebrations that coincide with these dates are usually moved to the Saturday before Palm Sunday, when the processions start busier in the center of the city or already on Easter Sunday when there are no brotherhoods on the street from noon.
However, in 2023 there have been extraordinary situations that have forced Sevilla – Celta on matchday 28 of LaLiga to play on Good Friday, one of the central days of the festival in Seville on which up to 7 brotherhoods celebrate their processional parades in the afternoon. .
The government delegation in Seville has requested that the Seville match be held in LaLig this Friday, April 7Unpleasant. The reasons for this are that Betis will also be playing at home that weekend and that match will be played on Easter Sunday evening as increased security is required as a massive movement of Cadiz fans is expected.
Both games could not be played on the same day for security reasons, as there is also a special security device for the celebration of a bullfighting festival on the afternoon of Easter Sunday.
On the other hand, Holy Saturday would have been the ideal date to celebrate the game, since the penultimate day of Holy Week is the quietest and the day when fewer brotherhoods usually take to the streets.
However, in this 2023 a Holy Great Burial has been organized, a special procession that has not been held for 19 years and which causes as many as 19 brotherhoods to leave that afternoon and the city is expected to receive many tourists and that forces all police officers to focus on organizing this event and unable to combine it with Sevilla – Celta, which will be less evil on Good Friday. Nor can it be put on Monday before the possibility of Sevilla or Betis having to play the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals the following Thursday.
Source: Goal