De Marcos exercises alone in Lezama

Athletic returned to training yesterday afternoon after being eliminated from the Cup on Wednesday at Mestalla and enjoying a day off on Thursday. Marcelino couldn’t count on From Marcos, Balenziaga and Berenguer on the return to training, but today the three footballers have already been seen outside the Lezama facilities.

The one from Laguardia has trained alone after falling at the last minute of eleven for the second leg of the semifinal due to stomach problems. Lekue covered his position in the starting team and already in the second period he was replaced by Petxarroman. For their part, the left-back and the Navarrese winger, who were not with the rest of their teammates yesterday, it is assumed that due to some minor physical discomfort, today they have worked normally in the part of the training session that is open to the media.

The one from Zumarraga did not play a single minute at Mestalla, while the former Torino player started and was relieved by Nico Williams in the 70th minute, when Marcelino gave entrance to the youngsters with the aim of balancing the goal scored by Gonçalo Guedes of a powerful shot from the front just before the break in one of those many psychological ones that do so much damage.

In this way, everything indicates that the Asturian coach will have his entire squad available to receive the granotas as long as From Marcos is fully recovered. The team will train again tomorrow, Sunday morning (11 am) and later the coach will appear before the media to assess the confrontation against the team led by the Italian Alessio Lisci. “You have to beat Levante no matter what,” he said on Wednesday in the Mestalla press room. It is the first of the twelve league games in which Athletic is playing for a European place at the end of the season.

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