ATHLETIC MUST SOLVE THE 'KO' OF THEIR 2 GOALKEEPERS
Two key long-term losses in one of FC Barcelona's first rivals in LaLiga
Published:16/07/2024 - 20:14h
Updated:16/07/2024 - 20:15h
Athletic Club could be on alert because it will probably not have its two first team goalkeepers, Unai Simón and Julen Agirrezabala, who will be out due to unfortunate physical mishaps for several months
If there is a team that will begin the season 2024/25 with big uncertainty in his eleven initial, will be the Athletic Club. The Basque picture every time has fewer options to protect his goal in the first months of the course. Why? So much the first like the second guardameta of the cast bilbaíno, Unai Simón and Julen Agirrezabala, will begin the season 24/25 in the list of lesionados.
On the one hand, the one of Vitoria-Gasteiz would be of drop during some months after, when returning to the dynamics of the Athletic Club after his participation in the Eurocopa with the selection of Spain, considered necessary subject to an operation to correct a "unsteadiness escafoide-semilunar" in his right hand. This mishap resulted to be graver of the expected and will carry to that Unai have to go through the operating theatre, as it explained Josean Lekue, boss of the medical services of the 'Lions'.
Regarding Julen Agirrezabala, unfortunately for him, suffered a contusión during the training of the combined Basque this Tuesday, lesionándose the vertebral column. After the corresponding medical studies, to the donostiarra diagnosed him "three fractures in the apófisis transversas rights of L2, L3 and L4". This injury could leave it out of the fields of six to eight weeks.
🚑 It SPLITS MEDICAL I Julen Agirrezabala has suffered a contusión in the lumbar zone in the training and suffers three fractures in the apófisis transversas rights of L2, L3 and L4. @ImqEuskadi I #AthleticClub 🦁
— Athletic Club (@AthleticClub) July 16, 2024
The alternatives of the Athletic Club to face up to him this situation
In this point, will be crucial to see how the Athletic Club will handle this clear setback. They discern two clear solutions: bet by a goalkeeper of the quarry, as Álex Padilla or OierGastesi , any of which has experience in the first team in official competition, or evaluate the option that Unai Simón delay his surgical intervention, what would relieve the worry of Ernesto Valverde of face to the start of the season 2024/25.
