Athletic started preparing this week yesterday, which includes a dispute of two games and a good part of rojiblancas European options for next season. The first work session carried out in Lezama served, among other things, to verify how Aitor Paredes trained outside the group. Valverde needs to take care of Bilbao’s central defender, as he and Vivian are the only ones he has at this point to act as the axis of the rear. Iñigo Martínez has been injured since the lions’ visit to Almería (April 22) and Yeray, who pressed on against Villarreal despite his pubic problems, missed Saturday’s game against Celta through injury.
Valverde is once again in a situation similar to that experienced shortly before moving to the Estadio de la Cerámica. Then it seemed that the contest of Paredes was sanctioned by Vivian and the physical problems of Iñigo Martínez and Yeray, but the latter played. The rojiblanco coach himself held as an alternative the possibility of using Dani García or Vesga to act as center back.
The former was ruled out for the clash against Osasuna after a knee injury sustained against Celta. The second, due to the loss of his partner, appears as the main candidate to exercise in the middle of the field. Other possible options in an emergency could be Balenziaga and even Lekue.
It is necessary to see, in any case, how both Paredes and the rest of his teammates, because, after Osasuna, the lions await a visit from Elche this Sunday.
Source: La Verdad
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