Hercules striker Benja Martínez will not play this Sunday (12.00) at Rico Pérezin the transcendental match against Atlético Levante after suffering discomfort in the lymph nodes, as confirmed by the Blue and Whites coach Vicente Mir on Friday.
Neither will he play against the granota subsidiarywinger Víctor Olmedo, who leaves on loan to Orihuela, from the same group III of Segunda B, until the end of the season after playing 11 games this season with the first team.
The Catalan attacker thus joins theabsences of the injured De Lerma and the suspended Nani, who will not play a game in which Hercules desperately needs victory to try to get out of the well from the relegation zone to Third Division.
The blue and white set,who has added two points from the last nine and still does not know what it is to win in 2020, has 18 points and is four from direct salvation.
His rival this Sunday,Levante Atlético trained by the blue and white coach Luis García TevenetIt is in a more relaxed position with five points more than those from Alicante.
“It is very important to win at home and the team already deserves a victory,” stressed Mir, who regretted the“lack of luck” of theirs in the defeat of last Saturday in Villarreal (1-0)and in the two home games against Prat (2-2) and Ejea (2-2), in which his team went ahead, but was unable to tie the victory.
Mir has declared himself“happy” with the six players who have arrivedso far in the blue and white winter market “because they will give us many things”.
The Valencian coach has admitted that in his day he said that there would be no revolution in the locker room in January, but he specified that the new sports commission they runPaquito and Francisco Martínez under the orders of the shareholder Juan Carlos Ramírezconsidered that more changes in the wardrobe were necessary.
The last to arrive, the26-year-old defensive midfielder Sergio JiménezHe has already trained this Friday with Hercules and the coach will decide whether to call him up for Sunday’s game. In that demarcation the team has been left in the winter market without Fran Miranda and the Colombian Alvarado and De Lerma were injured on Saturday.
Hercules defensive midfielder Sergio Jiménez, this Friday at Rico Pérez –
All in all, Mir has been reluctant to comment on the ups and downs in the January window, considering that it is detrimental to the dressing room to talk about entry and exit.
“We started from scratch with what there is, this is what we have and I don’t want to participate in this debate anymore;the team has improved and with these we have to get Hercules out yes or yes “, has indicated.
On Sunday’s game, the coach is waiting for a subsidiary ofLevante “intense, with a coach who knows what he plays and very difficult on the counterattack.”
Mir has also played down the schedule that awaits Hercules with the next consecutive visits to the leader Sabadell and the rival for the permanence Orihuela. “I am concerned about Sunday’s game because today the differences are minimal between playing at home and away.”
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