The Argentine goalkeeper suffered a cleft jaw in Kiev while the midfielder broke three teeth in Eibar.
Lreaction experienced by the Villarreal in the last matches to end a disastrous streak where, for two months, victories were denied, it has served to link two vital triumphs that allow them to stay in the fight for their goals. Yes indeed: they have not been free. Especially for some footballers who have had to “break their faces” for the good of the team as is the case with Manu Trigueros and Gero Rulli.
The Argentine goalkeeper will be one of the main absent in this Thursday’s game against him Dynamo of Kiev because of a cleft jaw that occurred in the first leg played on Ukrainian soil. Rulli suffered the injury after receiving a strong knee from the Luxembourgish, Gerson Rodrigues, when they were fighting for a ball in the area. The ex de la Real could finish the game and was even on the bench this past weekend in Ipurua. But after the discomfort did not subside, he was subjected to tests this week that have ruled the extent of an injury that will keep him off the court until after the break.
It wasn’t much better for Manu Trigueros in Eibar, who after a strong bump with a rival in the center of the field, suffered the fracture of three teeth of the lower arch. The talaverano held out until the end of the game and he played the 90 minutes to help his team in a key game that served to break the eight-game winless streak in the league. Tras go to the dentist this week to repair the damage caused by such action, the player will be on the list although everything indicates that he will be on the bench at the beginning
Precisely Rulli and Trigueros are the only two players of the campus that, until this day, have participated in the eight games his team has played in Europe League this season.
A vila-realense on the list
The loss of Rulli will not be the only one in the goal since andThe yellow team’s starting goalkeeper, Filip Jorgensen, drags muscular discomfort that will prevent him from being part of the call. Swedish origin He had to retire last weekend in the match that his team played in Orihuela to make way for the goalkeeper from Vila-Real, Marc Vidal.
Vidal, runner-up in the world with the U17 team, will thus become the first local goalkeeper to reach the first team call since the yellow team plays in the highest category of national football.
