Gaizka
Garitano tomorrow will be forced to do without the services of Iñigo
Martinez in the match against Celta. The Competition Committee confirmed yesterday the sanctioning match for the rojiblanco center-back after seeing the fifth yellow of this season against Getafe. The defender from Ondarrutarra fulfilled his 101st match against the Azulona squad as a lion, an amount that could have been greater had he not lost thirteen official matches between the League and the Cup due to physical problems, federative punishment or technical decision (he did not play the cupbearer cross Sevilla in 2018-19).
Iñigo
Martinez, from this perspective, has always counted as a holder for Kuko
Ziganda, Berizzo Y Gaizka
Garitano. With the Navarrese, in fact, he made his debut as a lion after landing in Bilbao during the winter market. The left-handed central defender then played 16 league games, but missed the last one at home against Espanyol, on scorecards.
Untouchable with Garitano
The following season, 2018-2019, he missed the first two days due to physical problems. Then, once recovered, he was part of the plans of Berizzo until his dismissal. Gaizka
Garitano he aligned him in his debut as a coach (round of the Cup in Huesca), but then he could not count on his services in his league debut against Girona in San Mamés due to federative sanction. That campaign ended up seeing 12 yellows and missing a total of five league games and two from the KO tournament.
His participation increased last season, although he also missed another five meetings between physical problems, especially at the start of the League, and accumulation of cards (10 in total). In Cup, however, he played everything.
The common alternative
The substitute in the rear axle in the absence of Iñigo
Martinez It has varied depending on the coach on duty. Ziganda, for example, he opted for the trio Nuñez, Yeray Y Etxeita on matchday 38 of the 2017-18 season with the ondarrutarra sanctioned.
Berizzoinstead, he resorted to the tandem Yeray–Nolaskoain at the start of the 2018-19 League in the absence of the injured left-hander. From that moment, second day of that championship, every time he has missed Iñigo
Martinez, Garitano has opted for the couple Yeray–Nuñez.
Everything indicates that tomorrow, against Celta in San Mamés, history will repeat itself. The main doubt lies in seeing if there is a third center-back, possibly from the rojiblanco subsidiary, or not on the bench.
More defeats than triumphs
From the perspective of the result, the absences of Iñigo
Martinez In the starting eleven they have resulted in more defeats than victories for the rojiblanco team. Espanyol (0-1), Valladolid (1-0), Real Sociedad (2-1), Barça (1-0) and Leganés (0-2) constitute the losing baggage of the lions without their central in these last three leagues .
The triumphs came against Leganés (2-1), Girona (1-0), Atlético (2-0) and Barça (1-0). The league draws took place in San Mamés against Huesca (2-2) and Getafe at the Coliseum of the last League (1-1).