Sevilla, January 2 (EFE).- Argentine Matías Almeyda, coach of Sevilla, explained this Friday at a press conference that Sunday’s game against Levante was “very important”, which is why he regretted Alfon’s renewed injury and the “two or three absences due to fever” in today’s training.
Almeyda pointed out that the La Mancha winger “has grown in training and returned to his level” but “he injured himself yesterday in training in the soleus” so he will be “out for about two weeks” and “it’s a shame that he is almost never 100% fit” since it is the third injury he has sustained this season.
The Buenos Aires coach pointed out that “the cause of injuries is always investigated”, a scourge from which “all teams suffer”, but admitted that in Sevilla this year there are “many players who have relapsed and have suffered from it before”, so the problem is being “investigated internally”.
Swiss winger Rubén Vargas will also not feature again against the Granotas as he is “still” recovering and “improving” from the mishap at the end of November, although he warned that “his injury was more serious than others and there is no reason to rush him to get him back healthy.”
Matías Almeyda is suspicious of Levante, which has a new coach in the Portuguese Luis Castro, who he “could see thanks to technology how he worked in other places”, although he “only cares about Sevilla, which has to “play” its “game” to “defeat its rival”.
“We are aware of the importance of every game. We have to give the players confidence to hold the halfway line that cost us so much to find: we have to put a lot of love and commitment into it,” added Almeyda, who was suspended for his sending off at the Santiago Bernabéu on Sunday and who will communicate “from somewhere with Javi (Martínez)” his assistant.
Since yesterday, Almeyda has a new player under his command, the Argentine central defender Federico Gattoni, with whom he “talked about his time at River, where he played little”, and he does not know “what is happening in the market” as they are supposed to find a way out for him, although at the moment he “needs to be trained and treated with respect”. EFE
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