The two centrals considered starters in Athletic are paying an expensive bill as far as cards are concerned. Perhaps it could be a symptom of the situation that the rojiblanco team is suffering. So much Iñigo Martínez as Yeray They have already seen three yellows and are at the top among the most booked in the League.
The first to notice this high rate of punishment was Iñigo Martínez, who saw three yellow cards in the first four games played. He was booked in the first with Granada in Los Cármenes, he fought in the second with Eibar in Ipurua and linked two with Cádiz in San Mamés and Alavés in Mendizorroza. In the last two appointments with Levante at home and Osasuna at El Sadar, the kaiser from Ondarroa has been clean.
But with Yeray picking up the baton. Accumulate three yellows in three games. He saw one at the league premiere in Granada and two more after his reappearance against Levante and Osasuna. It should be remembered that he was lost due to a muscle injury, suffered in the friendly with Sevilla in San Pedro del Pinatar, the clashes with Eibar, Cádiz and Alavés.
Another thing is to review the criterion that has been had with the two rojiblancos centrals. Without going any further, the one that the referee taught him Fernandez block to Barakaldo in El Sadar for its entrance to Enric Gallego it was, to say the least, rigorous. And more seeing the writing of the arbitration act. “At minute 24, the player Yeray Alvarez he was cautioned for the following reason: Recklessly tackling an opponent in the dispute for the ball ”. Clearly exaggerated.
The third element in the axis of the rear of the Bilbao group, Unai Nunez, played the three games in which Yeray was out of circulation. And he also tried the yellow card, although only on one occasion, against Alavés, in which it was the third performance for the Portugalete defender.
The most admonished to date in First according to LaLiga is Damien, Uruguayan footballer for Getafe, with four yellow cards. And then they figure Yeray and Iñigo Martínez, with three, in a large group together with the Osasunists Nacho Vidal and David García, German (Pomegranate), Tapia and Beltrán (Celtic), Emerson and Bartra (Betis), Bruno (Valladolid), Pedraza (Villarreal), Olive (Getafe), Casemiro (Real Madrid) and Lejeune (Alaves).
This classification does not fully correspond to the number of fouls committed, although it does more or less in several cases. The one who has been whistled the most (23) has been Merino (Real). And players like David garcia (16), Wall (16), Bartra (14) or Damien (14) they do appear in the top-ten.
The one with the most fouls committed in the statistics by Athletic is Raul Garcia (12), in the sixteenth position of this table. Follow him Iñigo Martinez (8), already very far away in that list, Layer (6), and Williams and Unai López (5).