Borja Fernandez explains meetings with Raul Bravo and Keko amid claims of match-fixing LaLiga Prior to clash with Valencia

Borja Fernandez, one of the key men in the 'Oikos Operation' corruption case, has come out to explain himself after recorded conversations proved that the match between Real Valladolid and Valencia was fixed.

Fernandez, who played his last game as a professional for Valladolid as they lost 2-0 to Los Che, has been accused of being one of the leading figures, along with Raul Bravo and Carlos Aranda, in the recent match-fixing scandal that has rocked Spanish football.

El Mundo have published phone conversations that were intercepted by police between Aranda and a friend, which prove that the clash between Valladolid and Valencia on the last day of the season was fixed prior to the match taking place.

Two defensive errors from Valladolid gifted Valencia a goal in either half, as Aranda said would happen in the phone call.

Now, Fernandez has spoken to El Partidazo and Radio MARCA, via Isaac Fouto, to give his version of events.

El Mundo reported that the midfielder had met with Raul Bravo in a bar two days before the game. It is also claimed that they met in the Real Valladolid offices to fix the result.

Fouto informed El Partidazo that the meeting with Raul Bravo wasn't secretive and that Fernandez's wife and daughter were there too. The reason for the meeting was to lend a hand to Bravo, who is trying to get his coaching license. Bravo was at Valladolid in January to coach the youth teams.

El Mundo also reported that Fernandez met up with his Valladolid teammates before the game at Keko Gontan's house.

According to Fernandez, this was in fact a barbeque to celebrate his retirement as the Valencia game was his last as a professional.

Fernandez also said that Valladolid owner Ronaldo Nazario had told him that this match was his best of the season in terms of statistics.