Dani Vivian He will have the opportunity on Saturday to play his 100th game as a lion. The player from Gasteiz has accumulated 82 League and 17 Cup appearances in his three seasons in the red and white first team and will be a centenarian at the peak of his career, when he becomes an important man for Ernesto Valverde and achieves full international status for the hand of another former lion, Riojan Luis de la Fuente.
The numbers say so. The center back is the only one to exceed 3,000 minutes of competition between the League and the Cup with just over a month to go in the season. He accumulated 2,564 in the regularity tournament and 613 in the KO tournament, which is higher than the second place in this ranking. Aitor Paredes, his partner in fatigue on the rear axis. The one from Arrigorriaga, who exercised yesterday apart from his teammates because of the concussion he suffered on Friday against Granada in San Mamés, has reached 2,957 (2,357 + 600). The podium was completed by another important person, Inaki Williamswith 2,824 (2,492 + 332). First Simon, Guruzeta, Sancet, From Marcoswho cannot increase Metropolitano’s stats while he is allowed, Nico Williams, Yuri and Ruiz de Galarreta They will be next in the top-10.
They lived He is the field footballer who has played the most in both competitions. It’s pretty unusual for the same player to top these two stats considering that Valverde He usually changes his eleven in the Cup, at least in the first qualifying rounds, the matches against inferior rivals that also have a risk because they are played in a single match on the opposite field.
The player from Gasteiz has played 29 games in the Liga, 28 of them as a starter. He only lost three. The first, against Mallorca in San Mamés (4-0), by technical decision –Valverde selected for Yes and Walls-; the second due to injury (against Almería at the Juegos del Mediterráneo Stadium) and the third, against Barça at home, due to the accumulation of precautions. The numbers repeated in the Cup He played seven out of eight games in the KO competition. He just missed the green in the second round against Cayón who played at El Sardinero.
They lived He had to make a name for himself in the world of football on loan to Mirandés in the Second Division. In Burgos he played 32 games in the 2020-21 season and even won the captain’s armband. The following season, he returned home to strengthen the defense of Marcellin. He played 27 games and in the last one he reached 36, as he has this season, with six more to close a season to remember, including the title.
Source: La Verdad
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