Iago Aspas returns regenerated to save Celta

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"It's more important for us than Messi for Barcelona," Brais Méndez warns about his teammate Iago Aspas, who received a medical discharge on Thursday and who is expected at least during the match against Celta against Villarreal on Saturday. Balaidos. It is not an appointment either. The two teams are on both sides of the descent frontier, the Galicians four points below (25, 29 from Villarreal), with hardly any option to fail. So Iago Aspas returns in good time for his own, after playing just 25 minutes in the last three months, time in which of 33 possible points his team barely added four.

Aspas suffered a muscle injury to the inner calf of his right leg on December 22. Celta was ninth in the table. He reappeared a month and a half later without finishing feeling well and on February 16, while he warmed up in the band to join a match against Levante, he broke again. By then the alarms had already been fired, with the team barely a point above the descent, also marked by Villarreal. Now he is four points down after a draw at the Alavés field and losing to Eibar, Betis and Real Madrid.

Nothing has been spared in the treatment of the footballer. Dr. Garcia Cota, who besides working at Celta does so in the Spanish national team, decided to look for alternatives to the initial plan, so Aspas moved to Barcelona to receive an innovative regenerative therapy from cells of the white blood cells of his blood, somewhat more advanced than the usual one of growth factors obtained from platelets. The goal was to avoid new problems with the healing of the injury. Then he went to Madrid to receive specific sessions of physiotherapy. They have not wanted to take risks in terms of deadlines and the league stop helped to moderate the rush and adjust deadlines because the striker, 31, had already assumed that he could not enter the last round of La Roja.

               

The plan was that he was ready to receive Villarreal and habeen fulfilled. Aspas is ready. During his absence the football crisis of the team has been ahead of a coach, Miguel Cardoso, and prompted the arrival of Fran Escribá, with whom the team has lost the two games he has directed. The weight of Aspas in the collective is indisputable. The international forward had scored 10 goals in 17 games before getting injured. In the last 11 games without him, Celta have scored just eight goals and have not played for four games. But his influence also affects the performance of his teammates up front. Since Aspas is not there, Maxi Gómez only scored one goal and a penalty, the same statistic that Brais Méndez presents.

"He is a key player, the best we have", assumes the defender David Costas, who denies doubts about whether the hyperactive Aspas can accuse not only the weight of inactivity but also that of responsibility. "He has a lot of personality and can take this pressure and more", ditch. Fran Escribá is concerned about the expectations of someone who is unanimously designated as the savior of the team, but also surrenders to him. "It will not be at its best, but it will make us all better."