Aspas and your threshold of pain

“If we’re waiting for a full recovery, I wouldn’t play anymore.” These are the revealing words of Carlos Carvalhal about Iago Aspas’ chronic back injury. Ten is invited, but he continues without training and his competition, to a greater or lesser extent, will depend solely on the threshold of pain that 10 can withstand. If Iago sees even the slightest possibility to help his team, no one has the slightest doubt that he will

“He was invited, but it is questionable, we will look at it tomorrow (for today). He has more than one day and let’s see if he can help the team,” said the Celta coach in his appearance before the match with Girona. For Iago, everything remains the same as before the visit to Athletic. Days pass, and the footballer remains on the sidelines of the group, but in in this case, rest is the best recovery from Moañé’s battered back. “He is a player who has to rest his back as much as possible to do the test at the (time) limit. We will see how he is on match day,” Carvalhal said. Therefore, the final decision on their participation will be delayed until the last moment, extending the deadline as much as possible.

The disease is not new for Aspas. It has been repeated for a long time and appeared already in the first round, although now it looks more serious, since then it has not stopped in any game, and on this occasion it was not invited to San Mamés.

The final decision on participation against Girona will be made by Iago himself. “To play, it has to be with a sacrifice, something he has been doing in recent seasons. He plays sacrificially a lot of times (it goes without saying that it’s painful) and it’s not new for him to play like that,” said the sky blue coach.

More than two years

Celta’s reference player has not missed more than one game in a row since January 2021, when he was out of work for 26 days due to a muscle problem. More than two years have passed since then and he played practically everything, but this end of the season is especially difficult for him, collectively and personally.

However, it is noticeable that the chronic back injury reached its peak in the campaign in which he played absolutely everything; in fact, he played 27 of the 31 games in which he went face-to-face. Today he will have all the Celticism in limbo.