Yeray returned to the Athletic infirmary

Yeray returned to the infirmary. Athletic itself managed to communicate yesterday that “the player suffers a moderate muscle injury in the femoral biceps of his right leg and his evolution is pending.” The accident, according to a note released from Lezama, occurred during Wednesday’s training session and, if its extent is confirmed, it could prevent the player from competing for three or four weeks.

Incidentally Yeray is to date the only member of Athletic’s first team to have completed four League games played so far. This muscular mishap slows his progress and improves on the grass, something the lion himself recently regretted in an interview with MD.

“Last season was for me the best and worst season of my career. I had a lot of injuries, five or six, in the end they all didn’t disappear because they weren’t seen. It’s complicated. The reality of training, preparing your yourself physically to get back to the level of your teammates or to get into a game and get injured again, makes it harder for you. And up to five times because it was complicated for me,” he indicated then.

Be worried

Yeray then claimed to fully recovered, although he acknowledged that “once you get injured so many times you are constantly thinking in training ‘what if I hit him and I break again’, ‘what if I’m going to play and I’m going to break break again’… And you’re not enjoying it, you’re not playing well, and you’re not good physically. This season we started from the beginning and I feel good physically. Now I have to have a bit of confidence because at the end of the year I played very little.”

The center is back in the pits. Valverde must decide whether in Las Palmas he will bet on Paredes or Nuñez with Vivian in the axis of defense.