Asier Villalibre headed for the locker room tunnel 26 minutes after leaving the green from San Mames after the break as a shock to straighten out a challenge against Celta that went uphill. The Athletic striker, weighed down this year by up to three injuries to the femoral biceps of his left leg and his subsequent relapses, he left disheartened. He is not lucky, of course, although this time it affects the adductor muscle, but it is his fourth injury to prolong a particular ordeal and penance for the willful striker from Gernika.
“Among all the bad things we did today, the worst was Villa’s bad luck. The injury is in the abductor, not in the area he had had. It’s less important and I hope he’ll be available as soon as possible,” lamented his coach, Marcelino García Total, describing it after the match against Celta as “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. Villalibre replaced Iñaki Williams in the 46th minute and had to be relieved in the 72nd when he himself claimed the change for the young winger Nico Serrano. It is unknown until the exact recovery time is explored in a timely manner, but it seems clear that he is out for this Thursday against Cádiz at the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium.
Between the past months of September and November, the forward linked three consecutive injuries to the biceps femoris of his left leg, recurring. Búfalo suffered his first injury on September 21 in the match against Rayo Vallecano and was injured again on October 23 against Villarreal. On November 19 against Levante he left again injured in the same area of his muscles. A medical chart that has prevented him from performing as expected from the team’s most specific striker. Against Celta, after just three races into space, in a crash he felt the pain in the adductor that caused him to leave the field again. Villalibre cursed his luck. It is his turn for the fourth time this course to go through the pits.
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*Data updated as of April 18, 2022