The Anoeta derby left positive news. Yes He played ninety minutes. The Barakaldo center-back has not played a full game in four and a half months. The last one is Villarreal-Athletic which corresponds to matchday 34 of the previous season, with very bad memories because the lions got a good win (5-1).
From that moment, he was absent from the last four games, against Celta and Elche in San Mamés and Osasuna and Real Madrid at home, because of the pubic discomfort he was suffering. On May 31, four days before closing the League at the Santiago Bernabéu, he underwent surgery for pubalgia. The defender did not travel to Mexico to play friendlies against Chivas and Necaxa. Logically, he needs some time to play again. He did so in the Cantabrian town of Santa María de Cayón against Racing de Santander in the third preparation match played on July 27, but after 39 minutes he had to leave the field suffering from muscle overload.
This injury prevented him from playing the first four games of the season, the home games against Madrid and Betis and the visits to Osasuna and Mallorca, and he appeared again against Cádiz on September 16. Breathing he relaxed Walls in the 68th minute. A day later, when everyone indicated that he would be the starter, Valverde He was careful and also chose the Bilbao player in the eleven, as in the next match, the match against Getafe in Bilbao, when he made only one change and it was forced, that of Ander Herrera for the wounded Ruiz de Galarretin.
His turn to return to the eleven came on Saturday in Anoeta. He also finished the game. Txingurri chose to change They lived, the other central defender, by Paredes with a quarter of an hour left in regulation time. At the end of the meeting, he addressed the media with sincerity. “It’s hard to come back after five months. Playing 90 minutes was difficult and more so in this type of game,” he said at the San Sebastian stadium.
The Biscayan is as powerful on the field as he is in front of the microphone. He is critical of himself for having three goals, something that directly concerns him. “We have to take a look at what has happened to us, the forcefulness in both areas, especially in ours. We cannot concede three goals in a derby, we have to be stronger and correct the mistakes. Those at the back and the whole team have to think why we conceded three goals and those at the top continue until now. Nobody wants to lose a derby, but Almería’s three points are worth it,” he said, looking forward to Friday’s next event.
Source: La Verdad
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