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Saved was one of Manuel Pellegrini's fixtures during the preseason games of the Real
Betis, but a couple of inopportune muscular injuries stopped his entry into the starting team, and when he managed to carve out a niche in it, it was the coronavirus that stopped him cold. The Mexican international has told his followers on YouTube about this anomalous season. “I started the preseason very well, one day before the first day that I was going to start I got injured. I come back, I go with the national team, I play a couple of games and the day before my return to Betis I got injured again. I come back, I played three games in a row, I'm starting to feel good and everything playing as a starter and poof … coronavirus ”, Guarded commented in a video with his wife, Sandra de la Vega, on YouTube.
Testing positive for Covid just before the derby against Sevilla on January 2 has not had a good time: “The confinement, mentally, I said 'yes I feel screwed', my back hurt a little, maybe it was from lying down Damn coronavirus, I was really screwed. When Catalina (her daughter) cried, I put her on TV because it made me want to go out and see how she was doing. Hearing my children play and seeing them through the window broke my heart, that kind of thing made it more difficult for me, it made me more desperate for wanting to go out now. Mentally that was killing me. This year it was difficult for me to start, in the confinement they sent me exercises to keep me in shape, but there were days that it was difficult for me to stop and run, ”said Guardado.
“Since the pandemic began, we have taken good care of ourselves and we have related to our closest people and that's it, because one happens and thank God it was good, but it starts to give you the scare of 'and who the hell did I get infected? ? 'and I felt the responsibility that, because of me, more people are infected and that they have strong symptoms, that they have a bad time, ”concluded Guardado.