The ‘wear and tear’ suffered by the lions in the first FIFA window of the season

Nico Williams He is the lion who takes home the most ‘worn’ from the first FIFA window of the season. The Athletic winger has accumulated a total of 141 minutes of play after starting the first two games of the new Nations League, both playing on the left wing of attack, where he has already lined up with great success Ernesto Valverde in the last season.

In the first of them, against Serbia on Thursday in Belgrade, he was not able to shine as much as he wanted to make a big debut in the Ballon d’Or nomination decided by UEFA and France Football the previous day. . On Sunday he started again against Switzerland. In Geneva he looked more relaxed, with that spark when facing an opposition that is already feared across Europe, but that all changed in the 23rd minute when he was sent off. Le Normand to make mistakes Plunger when the local player headed alone towards the goal defended by David Raya. From that moment, the game changed, but Spain knew how to cope with the Swiss attacks to end up winning 1-4 with a great personality exercise by playing one down for almost all battles.

Luis de Fuente problem solved by introduction Dani Vivian. removed Peter from the field to continue the defense with four troops: Carvajalthe gasteiztarran footballer, Laporte and Grimaldo. The centre-back performed at a high level after not playing a single minute against the Serbians as he was one of the players discarded by the Rioja coach. His total participation was 62 minutes.

Iñaki Williams with Ghana

The third red and white player to enter the scene in this national team break is Iñaki Williams. The Bilbao native played only ten minutes with Ghana in the match also on September 5 against Angola which ended in defeat (0-1). Yesterday he started in the clash against Niger which played in Morocco which ended in a 1-1 draw. Alidu Seidu put the Blackstars ahead in the 44th minute, but Sack He equalized the score in the 81st minute, just ten minutes after Athletic’s ‘9’ was replaced by Owusu. He returned to Lezama with 81 minutes on his legs. This 1-1 makes things difficult for the team led by Otto Addo in the qualifying phase for the 2025 Africa Cup, with just one point added to a possible six.

Padilla has yet to play

What hasn’t been released yet is Alex Padillathe goalkeeper who made his debut in a call for the Mexican senior team again led by ‘Vasco’ Aguirre. The goalkeeper who has already played in the first two league games for Athletic (Getafe at San Mamés and Barça at Lluis Companys at Montjuïc) did not participate on Saturday in the defeat against New Zealand (3-0). It is necessary to see if the coach who led Mallorca in the Cup final against the lions played on April 6 in La Cartuja gives him the chance in today’s friendly against Canada in Texas.