Bilbao injury blows<\/p>\n
Athletic Bilbao have been dealt some major injury concerns ahead of the Europa League semi-final second leg against Manchester United.<\/p>\n
The LaLiga outfit could be without star winger Nico Williams and full-back Oscar De Marcos.<\/p>\n
Manager Ernesto Valverde said: “We have to see how De Marcos is after the other day and Nico, who won’t be able to play because he’s not well, having had this groin pain for a while.<\/p>\n
“He’s making an effort to be there but he’s not well.<\/p>\n
“He’s feeling the effects of the season.<\/p>\n
“He finished the other day very badly, yesterday he was also bad, today too, and he won’t be able to play tomorrow.<\/p>\n
“Sancet is doing well and as for Nico, we have to evaluate him day by day.<\/p>\n
“He’s been making an effort to be here but it’s been a while now and during the season it doesn’t come without a hitch for everyone, all these games so close together.<\/p>\n
“They always lead to problems, not just for us. You see Inter, Bar\u00e7a, after so much effort.<\/p>\n
“We’re not exempt from that happening to us.<\/p>\n
“We’ll see day by day to see if we can recover and manage well until the end of the season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bilbao injury blows Athletic Bilbao have been dealt some major injury concerns ahead of the Europa League semi-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,1921,2465,98,103,189,190,1922,16,15,165],"class_list":{"0":"post-80604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-live-blogs","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-marcus-rashford","15":"tag-section-sportfootball","16":"tag-section-sportfootballpremier-league","17":"tag-sport-live-blogs","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-viktor-gyokeres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114463979132085650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}