The coach of Sporting, Rubén Albés, The extent of the central defender’s injury is pending Eric Curbelowho had to retire at the end of the first half of the match against Zaragoza and is currently a doubt for the next league match, in which the Gijón team visits Eibar.
The injury to Curbelo, the undisputed starter at the start of the season, once again creates problems in defense for Rubén Albés, who has not yet been able to count on all of his defenders in any match, although he has already recovered Rober Pier and is about to do so. with Diego Sánchez.
Albés has his wild card player in Ander Olaetxea, since, although he is a midfielder, so far he has played more minutes as a center back than in his natural position, the last time yesterday against Zaragoza after Curbelo’s injury, despite the fact that in On the bench was a specific center back like Maras.
Olaetxea is responding to the coach’s confidence by offering good performance in both areas and even yesterday by delaying his position. For his part, Gelabert is showing the level expected of him when Sporting brought him in this season and against Zaragoza he was the most outstanding in the second half in which most of the red and whites’ offensive actions went through him.
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Sporting will play the next matchday in Eibar, where Albés will already be able to count on captain Cote from the start and, there is even a good chance that he will also be able to count on Gaspar Campos, which would recover the most common left wing.
However, the red and white coach is satisfied with his substitutes, Pablo García and Queipo, so he could give Gaspar Campos more recovery time, while Cote already came out in the final stretch of the match against the Aragonese team.