More doubts than certainty at Athletic ahead of Saturday’s match against Osasuna at San Mamés. Valverde saw a good part of the members of his squad yesterday at the Lezama green, but almost all those who missed last Friday’s match against Getafe at the Coliseum still did not enter one hundred percent in the dynamics of the group. Doubts surrounding center backs, above all, also remain.
The coach of Gasteiztarra knew from the day of the match in the field of Azulón that Yeray and Paredes did not face the visit of the Navarrese team. Both saw the red card for the said commitment. The first of them was for a hand that avoided what is now called “a promising attack.” The second, for a double warning.
Vivian, in this way, is the only center back in the first team that aims to play this Saturday against Osasuna. The brave defender from Gasteiz had to overcome, however, the lower back discomfort that prevented him from being included in the squad for Getafe. Yesterday he went out to train with the rest of his teammates, but after a while he broke away from the group to do a specific job.
The same is happening to Egiluz. The Bilbao Athletic defender joined the group in the first part of training. Then, like Vivian, he worked with the rest of the first team team. The Durango defender, who was not in the squad for the red and white reserve team on Sunday, has some ankle problems. His progress is favorable, but at the moment he cannot train with complete normality.
We will have to see what happens in today’s morning training to see what is the evolution of both Vivian and Egiluz. The lions, if you remember, finished last Friday in the clash with Getafe with Prados and Vesga as center backs.
There are many more comebacks
The work session carried out yesterday by Athletic in Lezama also served to record the progress of other first team players who were sidelined against Bordalás due to various physical problems. Yuri, for example, is still in the process of recovering from “traumatic injury to the posterior tibial artery as a result of a contusion on his right ankle” after Bruno Méndez’s tackle during Granada’s visit to San Mamés. The left-handed back is slowly improving, but is not yet in the right condition to return to the group.
Sancet, in the process of recovering from a muscle injury sustained in his left leg during the visit to Metropolitano, also exercised yesterday near his Lezama teammates. Like Ruiz de Galarreta, who continuously ran and held the ball for almost half an hour before teammates jumped on the training field.
Source: La Verdad
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