Jonathan Bamba’s season is getting long, after becoming one of Celta’s most outstanding performers in an irregular start for the Celtics this season, where the most high-profile signing of the celestial team last summer almost always performed above average. After winning the African title with the Ivory Coast, the footballer born 28 years ago in the French town of Alfortville only had one good performance in Seville, which he completed with his second goal assist of the season. It was Giráldez’s debut after taking over from Benítez, and the last time he completed a League match. On the last day he did not play any minutes, after coming off the bench in the 66th minute against UD Las Palmas. Tomorrow against Villarreal, Bamba could repeat the substitute role for the third consecutive day.
The year 2024 is being disappointing for Jonathan Bamba, taking into account that his reappearance with the light blue did not occur until last March 1 against Almería, after missing 7 League games and 3 Cup games due to his participation in the Copa de Africa. Added to this was his absence against Cádiz due to a technical decision. Last day he did not play against Alavés either. Giráldez opted for Hugo Álvarez who has become his main competitor on the left side of the Celtic attack. The youth player is one of the essential players for the Porriñés coach, so it is not ruled out that the Ivory Coast international will repeat on the bench tomorrow against Villarreal. Against the yellow team Bamba faced his first substitution at Celta.
Nobody imagined that a young man from the quarry could put Bamba on the bench when in the first games of the course he had shown himself to be the most outstanding footballer of a light blue team that was trying to survive without the goals of an Aspas who had the biggest burden. Benítez system than the years.
The French footballer showed up last summer in Vigo with the letter of freedom, from Lille, to sign one of the best contracts of the celestial squad and commit to his new club until June 2026.
In 24 appearances in the Spanish championship, Bamba has contributed a couple of goals and as many assists. In the first ten days with Benítez, he played eight full games. Before scoring his first goal against Getafe, he gave an assist in the match against Las Palmas. Although days before he saw how the lack of technology to avoid ghost goals prevented him from celebrating his first goal with the light blue against Mallorca.
When his team called, Benítez granted him only eight minutes during the visit to Villarreal. Bamba would miss the next two months of competition, in which Benítez’s team gave the impression that they would come back in LaLiga and shine in the Cup. But everything remained a mirage and the club decided to change coaches after the defeat in the Bernabéu. Giráldez, however, continued to trust the Ivorian attacker, who had to share the lane with Hugo Álvarez who came to the starting team to stay.
Bamba is no longer essential and in the count of minutes played by the Celts in LaLiga he occupies ninth place. Villarreal awaits tomorrow, where the attacker made his debut as a substitute before his long absence and his subsequent waning phase in the light blue team.
With five days left to conclude the course, Jonathan Bamba is on his way to having an irregular year, below the expectations generated by his signing for Celta. His future in Vigo is unknown, taking into account the force with which Hugo Álvarez has emerged and the high salary of the French-born footballer.
Larsen and Williot, possible news
Claudio Giráldez prepares tomorrow’s match against Villarreal (Balaídos, 4:15 p.m.) with the doubt of whether he will be able to recover Renato Tapia, who is already doing progressive training with his teammates after overcoming some discomfort in a scar on the right rectus femoris. In the call, which will be made public after today’s training, Damián Rodríguez will enter again, who yesterday was also not included in the list of Celta Fortuna players for this afternoon’s match in San Sebastián against the Real Sociedad reserve team. . After losing by a landslide in Mendizorroza (3-0), Giráldez could bet against Villarreal on the same eleven that clearly beat UD Las Palmas in Balaídos (4-1). In that case, he would recover Williot Swedberg for the left side of the attack, as well as Strand Larsen as a center forward after serving the game suspension for cards. If these two developments occur, the victims would be Manu Sánchez and Douvikas. The man from Madrid would give the left lane to Hugo Álvarez, one of the regulars in Giráldez’s lineups. Apart from those two foreseeable changes in the eleven, Giráldez could opt for more modifications taking into account the poor image that Celta offered against Alavés. Carles Pérez could return to the bench and on that side they would have Mingueza and Tadeo Allende options who took advantage of the few minutes he had in Vitoria. Starfelt could also enter the defense or Jailson could return, which would leave a vacancy in the double pivot for Luca de la Torre or Hugo Sotelo.
On the other hand, César Soto Grado from La Rioja has been appointed as referee for Celta-Villarreal, with his teammate Del Cerro Grande on the VAR. They are the same referees from the first round match at La Cerámica, where the Vigo team protested against Kevin’s harsh penalty that Parejo converted.
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2024-05-04 04:10:03
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