MADRID, 20 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Villarreal and Alavés face this Tuesday (7:00 p.m.) their goals of qualifying for a European tournament and remaining in LaLiga Santander in the match corresponding to the fourth day of the championship, which was postponed due to the conflict with Conmebol for the loan of internationals in September.
The Dutch striker Arnaut Danjuma, one of the ‘franchise’ footballers of Unai Emery’s team, will be injured in the ‘yellow submarine’, which faces the match at La Cerámica fueled by the triumph (1-3) at the Reale Arena against La Real Sociedad and try to hold on to the continental dream. They will also not be available for Emery Coquelin, with an Achilles tendon injury, Rubén Peña, in the shoulder, Dani Raba and Serge Aurier.
Instead, Alavés will try to get out of the relegation places after their defeat (2-0) in Vallecas and Getafe’s victory ‘in extremis’ against Osasuna (1-0) at Alfonso Pérez, which has left him in the Penultimate place equal to 15 points with Elche and Quique Sánchez Flores’ own team.
The absences of Saúl García, Ximo Navarro and Matt Miazga, the latter due to COVID, weigh down the Vitoria team, which is looking for its first victory in the last five days -the last, against Levante (2-1) on November 6- after two draws against Getafe and Sevilla and defeats against Celta, Granada and the last one in Vallecas.
The coach of the Vitoria team, Javier Calleja, assumes that his rival is “in the best moment of the season” after chaining four consecutive victories and believes that he is “one of the best squads in LaLiga”. Calleja recovers Florian Lejeune, absent in the last game due to suspension, and Tomás Pina, who had a muscle injury, but has trained with the group.