The long wait for Marc Bartra

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The Verdiblanco defender could reappear next Sunday against Atlético de Madrid for the sanction of Víctor Ruiz after three months without playing

Marc bartra It could come back in a big way. The sanction by yellow of Victor Ruiz after seeing a card in the Martinez Valero opens the door to the return of the Catalan in the match against Atlético de Madrid next Sunday in it Benito Villamarin. Mandi looking for a partner in the center of the rear and in the case of opting for Bartra, the defender would return to the team after three months without playing. The other option of Pellegrini is to bet on Sidnei as a companion to the Algerian.

A Achilles tendon injury became a real ordeal for the defender, who played his last match before him grenade in Los Cármenes, which ended in defeat (2-0), back in the month of December. It has been a difficult few months for Bartra, who also suffered health problems in addition to his injury, specifically his gallbladder, which caused Colic and an important weightloss.

Bartra has been training normally for several weeks with the rest of the team and has even gone called up in the last two games, but without disputing any minute. Since he stopped in December, the central has been lost a total of 19 matches with the Betis, League 15 (9 won, 3 tied and 3 lost) and 4 of the Copa del Rey, three of them won and one tied and lost in front of Athletic in the penalties. It was starter in 13 of the first 14 days championship garters. The last season was the fourth Betis player that more minutes contested, only behind Sergio Canales, Joel Robles and Emerson.

Mandi and Bartra have habitually formed the starting central pair verdiblanca from February 2018 but they have not returned to together from the visit to Camp Nou of the last November 7 (5-2), in which the Algerian was expelled. In the last visit of the Atlético de Madrid to the Benito Villamarin, those of SImeone They imposed themselves 1-2 with goals from Morata and strap. Bartra was in charge of making up the result in the last breath (minute 93), in a play in which Estrada Fernandez had to pull VAR to validate the defender’s goal.

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