Despite being aware of the physical condition of Lo Celso, who will be examined by the Real Betis medical team today, Thursday once he returns to Seville after having felt discomfort in the last training session with Argentina before the duel against Bolivia for which he was called off, Manuel Pellegrini has received positive news during this league break in October in terms of adding troops for, not only the closest match against Osasuna the day after tomorrow at El Sadar, but also the upcoming LaLiga and Conference matches. mainly, in which the Heliopolitan team must take flight in terms of football and points. The recovery of players has occurred in the defense axis. The best news is the reestablishment of Natan de Souza. The Brazilian centre-back, on loan this season from Naples, suffered a medium-grade muscle injury in the distal third of the left semimembranosus muscle in the final stretch of the derby against Sevilla. A knee problem was ruled out in the medical tests carried out. This is a significant injury, due to which Natan could have missed several games. In fact, president Ángel Haro, in his public appearance in the official green and white media after the defeats in Warsaw and Nervión, estimated the defender’s absence at around three or four weeks, so, very predictably, he was not going to return. until after the November break scheduled for the weekend of the 16th and 17th of the eleventh and penultimate month of the year. Nothing could be further from the truth. It surprised everyone and everyone that since the beginning of this week the Brazilian had been running continuously on the grass on Monday, and then he had partially exercised with the rest of his teammates. He repeated that work dynamic on Tuesday and yesterday he was one more from the beginning, performing all the exercises proposed by the coaching staff under the orders of Pellegrini. Those who work closely with Natan highlight his physical power and, above all, his genetics. The result of this, in addition to the treatment he has received, may be the rapid recovery of the muscle injury he had in practically less than ten days. We will have to wait a little longer to know if the player on loan from Naples will return to the squad for the trip to Pamplona, or if the player, the coaches and the medical team decide to leave him in Seville and have him win some more training sessions to be with greater guarantees for the clash next Thursday, October 24 at the Villamarín against Copenhagen. But it is undoubtedly good news that in just a few days he has been able to return to exercise without apparent problems on the grass with the rest of the group. Pellegrini has also received the good news that finally the Technical Committee of Referees has not reported to the Disciplinary Committee to Diego Llorente for his statements against Martínez Munuera at the end of the derby against Sevilla. The matter has definitively come to nothing and the Madrid central defender has not exposed himself to the punishment of at least four games, in case the matter had been transferred to the disciplinary body of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. In addition, these days have also served so that Marc Bartra accumulated sessions with the group as one more. The defender returned to training with his teammates in the week before the derby. He could have traveled to Warsaw, but Pellegrini decided to leave him at home so that, although alone, he could work somewhat more calmly and his feelings could be assessed little by little. In the end, although he did not play any minutes, he was called up for the ultimate rivalry match against Sevilla and continued the match from the bench. Thus, together with Nobel Mendy who started and played the entire match in Warsaw against Legia, Pellegrini has at his disposal the four central defenders that he has under his command in the face of a demanding upcoming calendar that requires points, both in LaLiga and in Europe, for the Betic team.
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