The nickname “Fireless” fits like a glove Raul Albiol. Villamarxant’s veteran central defender added his own The Villarreal legend as he reaches 200 games with the La Plana club. And he did it as he did after arriving in the yellow team in the summer of 2019 being the starter and key person for any of the technicians who have been on the submarine all this time
Albiol, in this way, enters the list of 20 players who have reached this indicator Castello about the meetings with the organization. And he does it after the build-up against “Betis”. 163 league games14 in the Europa League, 12 in the Champions League, 8 in the Copa del Rey, 1 in the Conference League and 1 in the UEFA Super Cup final, played on his day against Chelsea.
In any case, the player could not celebrate with a good result and was critical of his team’s game. “We didn’t play a good game.we did not start well and did not know how to do it with excellence. We did not have much patience and were in a hurry. We have to be self-critical, we are living in a bad time and we have to get out of it. 0-2 could not be allowed because there was time to react with 0-1. It is everyone’s mistake, which cannot be. “We have all failed,” he declared.
After recently outscoring players such as Giuseppe Rossi or Pepe Reina?207 games for either Chukwueze or Josico to continue their promotion in the table are available at centre-back, with only Dani Parejo on 208 and Gerard Moreno (285) ahead of the current squad. As if that wasn’t enough, he started 193 of those 200 games, which shows his huge contribution to his team’s performance.
Oldest in the league
To him 39 years and more than three months (he had a birthday on the 4th of September) Albiol is the oldest player to play in the current season and an outfield player, “Mallorca” goalkeeper Pichi Cuellar on the flanksthe oldest in the championship. The yellow defender is bigger than the Croatian from Real Madrid. Luka Modric, who is only five days younger than the Valencian defender. He also outstrips Jesus Navas, another of our football’s illustrious veterans, in just two months.