Marcelino García Toral does not use to vary his starting eleven unless he needs to do rotations due to saturation, injuries or, as in this case, that one of its pillars saw his fifth yellow against Sevilla after dragging the penalty notice in the last days. Dani García is left off the horse from the team that the Asturian coach will line up on Sunday against Real Betis in San Mamés (4:15 p.m.), so the fan points to two tricks: Vesga, the man most similar to Dani García, or placing Zarraga with Vencedor in a tandem who know each other from the subsidiary, where they lined up together on many occasions along with Sancet forming a magic triangle in Second B.
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Marcelino will think about the dilemma this week in the Lezama sessions. Zarraga has been used lately more on the right wing, although against Sevilla he jumped in the wide area in the second half, the same as Vesga, relegated to throw a cable in the final stages in the last appointments. Marcelino has opted for Dani García and Vencedor as his tandem in the engine room, leaving his help to maintain the physical rhythm for the second acts. Betis proposes and likes to take the handle, so Athletic, which has accumulated seven games without winning despite deserving more loot due to bad occasions, must adjust its lines to park this elusive streak.