Valverde forced to change his starting eleven at Barcelona The muscle injury suffered by Paredes late in Thursday’s clash against Getafe at San Mamés has left the red and white coach without one of three specific centers -backs he has with his companions. group. Yeray, who started on the sidelines of the group yesterday, completed the match against the azulón team and Vivian, three days after conducting his first preseason training session after returning from vacation, played the last ten minutes of the match that served as the league. debut for the team that had to come in to replace his partner.
We will have to wait to see what Valverde’s intentions are to form the center of his defense in the clash against the Blaugrana. The improvement experienced by De Marcos in recent days also opens up the possibility of a change at right back. Gorosabel played against Bordalás, but the team captain was not called that day.
It is also expected if the coach from Gasteiz, with Ruiz de Galarreta out of the group due to muscle problems that prevented him from having game minutes throughout the preseason, will choose to repeat the Prados-Vesga duo in the double pivot with Sancet for the front of. At the beginning of the last League, after a poor opening match of the lions against Real Madrid in San Mamés, which ended in a 0-2 defeat, the Athletic coach chose to trust again in Galarreta and Vesga as a couple in the middle of the field, although he changed to midfielder.
More clear
The panorama of the midfield forward with a view to the clash against Barça seems clearer. The big doubt at this level is whether Valverde will choose to give Nico Williams the starting job or, if not, whether he will repeat his brother Iñaki and Berenguer open on the wing, because Djaló, the recently signed red and white striker , will not He will be suitable to face the Barça team because of his muscle injury.
It is clear that if Valverde is considering the possibility of including Vivian in his starting team, the diminutive Williams has serious options to jump into the starting eleven. The difference is clear, although neither of them has done a typical preseason after returning from their summer holidays after the European Championship in Germany: the center back started training last week and the forward did it seven days before.
In any case, the lions still have three training sessions ahead of them to properly prepare for their first official outing of the season. The red and white coach warned ahead of the clash against Getafe that “we have to avoid being too excited to get to know each other.” Later, after a 1-1 draw against Getafe in a poor match, he hinted that “for it to work you have to get your act together and work hard. “There is no other path for us.”
Source: La Verdad
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