Athletic face another lopsided friendly

In the early hours from today until tomorrow (5:00 am, 9:00 pm today in Mexico) Athletic will face the second pre-season friendly. An unbalanced encounter again. As was the case with Chivas, Necaxa faces an appointment with three Liga MX games played, while the rojiblancos have spent ten days of training and one game, played on Sunday against a Guadalajara team that ended up losing at home of ninety minutes (2-0). ) and also in the penalty shootout (4-2) that decided the Gernika Tree Trophy after the 2-0 first leg played in San Mamés on December 11.

The clash will be held at the Victoria de Aguascalientes stadium and is framed in acts for the centenary of ‘Los Rayos’, as they are known. It can be watched live on the Youtube channel of the Ibaigane club. This will be the second meeting in history between Necaxa and Athletic, who met as champions of their respective leagues on August 28, 1935. The match was held in Mexico City as part of the rojiblanco club tour and the lions led by Patrick Caicedo they fell 4 to 1.

Valverde it is possible that he will use the formula from Sunday again, when he will put eleven in each half to avoid injuries after several days of preparation and an 18-hour trip in between. first simon, Corner, They lived, like, Lekue, junior guest, Herrera, Nico Williams, holy, Nico Serrano and Guruzeta was selected in the first half and after going through the locker room it was the turn of padilla, petxaroman, egiluz , nolaskain, black pudding, vesga, galley, first gomez, Hello Ares, Berenguer and Raul Garcia. Txingurri will likely change the configuration of his teams and mix players from the same eleven, but in the same 4-2-3-1 system he usually uses.

The coach, who brought 24 players to the Aztec nation, left Unai won and Javier Martonbut the former had to jump off the field of play in the 82nd minute due to physical problems suffered by the central defender egiluz. Rekalde’s man was located in the middle of the field and Vesga delayed his position in the axis of the back. Finally, the only one without minutes is the striker from Real Sociedad B who, like Victor He will leave on loan in this summer market. The coach said in his first press conference of the course that he already has enough troops in the front attack. The logical thing was for the two of them to play the appointment the next morning.

Necaxa has not started the Mexican League very well. ‘Los Rayos’ have yet to win in three games played. They tied their first two games against Toluca (0-0) and Tijuana (1-1) and lost the latter against Chivas (2-0). Those led by Raphael Dudamel They only have one goal in their favor, the one scored by Alan Montes.