Although Gonzalo Plata sat out Real Valladolid’s game against Athletic Club last Friday and was not reported with an injury after the game, the Blanquivioletas winger will be left out of Ecuador’s squad for this month’s FIFA date against Australia with suspected adductor muscle discomfort.

The press from Quito with sources connected to the national team assures that Plata is doubtful for the trip to Oceania and that the medical services of Valladolid and Tricolor will decide if the youngster from Guayaquil is dissatisfied with the salary of coach Félix Sánchez. Bass.

Félix Sánchez Bas takes over the leadership of the Ecuadorian team

If his injury is official, the Ecuadorian side will take their losses to three in friendlies against Australia after Enner Valencia reported this monday “disturbance” in the knee and the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) confirmed on Sunday that Carlos Gruezo is suffering from “right hamstring muscle injury”.

Ecuador begins a new phase of the South American qualifying round for the 2026 World Cup, debuting the Spanish technical director, clashes against socceroos, the first on Friday 24 March in Sydney and the second on Tuesday 28 March in Melbourne.

“Ecuador has the team to fight for the Copa América and the qualifying rounds,” says Hernán Galíndez

With this first news, the FEF did not inform whether the national team will have replacements for Gruez and Valencia.

Part of the Ecuadorian team is already on Australian territory, players from European and British leagues joining this new process.

Coach Sánchez extended his shift last Thursday, while the aforementioned from the local tournament would join until Tuesday, in Sydney.

Plata is not having the best season of his career in Valladolid

In the chronicles of the match Valladolid 1, Athletic Bilbao 3, the man from Guayaquil is not mentioned in those published by the newspapers The world of sports and Day of Valladolid. His performance was insignificant on the 26th date of the Spanish championship and his performance is a pendulum. There are outstanding days and also bad presentations.

On the 25th, Plata was the star of his team in the victory over Espanyol. “Like a star”it was commented in the newspaper Brand, where it was added about the 22-year-old tricolor that he “showed that he is a player of enormous potential”. Hopeful, rotational North of Castile He said of Plata: “It started to be what we know and want.”

But with Plata unable to maintain his level, in the days before his remarkable performance against Espanyol, the Ecuadorian was described as “makes a fiasco. The first league in Spain is a category that seems very big for her and it doesn’t make a difference”public ASfrom Madrid.

Athletic from Bilbao visited the José Zorrilla stadium on Friday and with a 3-1 victory left Valladolid a few points (28 units) behind the two teams, Almeria and Getafe, as the penultimate and penultimate, respectively, in the relegation zone to the second division.

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