Ernesto Valverde has released the list of players called up for tonight’s match: Ruiz de Galarreta is also absent.

Just like Roma, the Athletic Club will also be engaged in a league game tonight before their return face-off in the last 16 of the Europa League at San Mames. The Basque team will face off against Mallorca at 5:30 PM. Currently, they are fourth in the rankings and need to win to stay in the Champions’ zone. Ernesto Valverde has recently released the list of players called up for the match: Vivian, Sancet, and Galarreta are notably absent. As admitted by the Spanish coach himself at a press conference last night, Vivian is likely not going to play against Roma (the defender injured himself at the Olympic stadium, a hamstring injury), while Sancet is recovering from a muscle injury and it’s possible that Valverde has granted him a rest period to return to 100% or close to it. Ruiz de Galarreta, on the other hand, is disqualified and should play regularly from the first minute against the deep-red team. Many Basque fans were nonetheless left surprised not seeing Sancet’s name among the selected players: “It’s clear he hasn’t recovered! He went to Rome to scare people.. It seems the block of text you mentioned is not provided within the instruction. Could you please input the text you would like to be translated? Sorry, there’s no text provided for translation.