Bad news for Martin Zubimendi. The San Sebastian midfielder hasn’t finished recovering from recent physical problems that are conditioning him in the last games. Against Celta de Vigo, in the last league game, despite coming off the bench and playing a few minutes, he ended up injured. He recovered in time to reach the Cup match against Atlético, but he was not in the best physical condition to be a starter. He came out again in the second half and ended up injured again, in the same area that he was injured against Celta de Vigo, so he will not be able to play this Sunday against Getafe.
Zubimendi “suffered an injury at the proximal level of the hamstring muscle of the right thigh”, in the game against Celta, and yesterday against Atlético de Madrid he ended up again touched in that same area, so he will be absent on the next day of the League, and it will be necessary to see if he arrives in conditions to play the next day, after the league break on the weekend of January 28-29. His absence due to injury is a problem because it is important because against Getafe he will have the sensitive loss of Mikel Merino, who is sanctioned for accumulation of yellow cards.
Rafinha has all the options to form in the eleven in his place, although Imanol Alguacil can also think about the return of his captain, Asier Illarramendi, who has been working normally with the whole group for some time now. In these last sessions before the visit of Quique Sánchez Flores’ team, the coach from Oriotarra will be very aware of Alexander Isak, who was close to coming back against Atlético de Madrid, but decided not to risk it. If there are no setbacks, the Swedish striker will be able to recover with enough time so that he can count for the royalist coach. He has two training sessions ahead of him to finish recovering in conditions.
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