The goalkeeper did not participate in training on this day, the penultimate before the clash between the Andalusian team and Villarreal.
Claudio Bravo and Ben Brereton will not face each other this weekend in the Spanish league. The team captain he could not overcome his physical problems and did not participate in today’s training of the team led by Manuel Pellegrini. The week was particularly complex for the goalkeeper trained in Colo Colo, who, with this Friday, sum four days without working with his colleagues .
Under these conditions, the Engineer will have no choice but to leave him out of the clash against Villarreal. In his place, the Portuguese Rui Silva will have to act, who in the prelude to the season had expressed his intention to leave the club, precisely because of the renewal of the Chilean goalkeeper, who ended up making a save in the last part of the previous one. .
What does Claudio Bravo own?
So far, there are not very concrete signs regarding the problem that affects Bravo. The Spanish press has indeed mentioned “undetermined discomfort », to address the situation of the goalkeeper, who integrates the list of absences of the Verdiblancos with Wiliam Carvalho and Nabil Fekir, other fundamental pieces of the structure that Pellegrini knew how to build during the period in which he led the Andalusian club . The Portuguese is evolving from an injury to the middle third of the soleus of his right leg. The Franco-Algerian is much more complicated: in February, he suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The disease involves a recovery that begins in six months.
Bravo started the pre-season giving absolute signs that he would be the owner of the Betic goal: he started the first three games . However, in the last two, he wasn’t even on the substitutes’ bench, which raised alarms about his physical condition. The apprehensions have finally been confirmed in recent days, with his absence from the working group.
the villa He continued to perform gym routines meant to keep him fit for the clash which will be played this Sunday , at 1:30 p.m. However, neither his efforts nor those deployed by the Betis medical staff were enough for him to act.
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