Iñigo Martínez was one of the key pieces in Barça's victory. The Ondarroa player had an exceptional game against his former team, Athletic, and proved to be a valuable option for Xavi in defense. He made the most of the opportunity that the Terrassa coach gave him
Neat, solvent, fast... Iñigo Martínez picked up Xavi's 'glove' against 'his' Athletic
Published:23/10/2023 - 01:06h
Updated:23/10/2023 - 01:06h
Iñigo Martínez was one of the key pieces in Barça's victory. The Ondarroa player had an exceptional game against his former team, Athletic, and proved to be a valuable option for Xavi in defense. He made the most of the opportunity that the Terrassa coach gave him
The FC Barcelona attained to solve successfully a hard meeting against a propositivo Athletic of Bilbao (1-0). It was a special party for Iñigo Martínez, since in addition to being his second titularity with the Barcelona T-shirt, played the 90 minutes confronting to his exequipo, the Basque group, where was during several seasons accumulating 177 meetings, eight goals and seven assistances.
The defender of Ondarroa jumped to the lawn of the Montjuïc after two days being acting in LaLiga, to confront to one of the offensives more goleadoras of the tournament. From the first compasses of the meeting, the cast bilbaíno tried to be incisive through Nico Williams and Oihan Sancet, but Iñigo kept the composure in the axis of the defence. Had a performance sobria, first doing couple with Andreas Christensen and afterwards with Ronald Araújo.
Iñigo had a stellar performance in front of 'his' Athletic
Together with Joãor Félix, Joãor Cancel and Marc André Ter Stegen, the exjugador of the Real Sociedad was one of which had a better performance in the party, obtaining a punctuation of 7.6 according to the portal web 'Sofascore'. This backs with solid statistics, since Iñigo Martínez won the three terrestrial duels in which it participated, made two clear, blocked two shots and made an effective entrance, closing the Barcelona bottom.
Regarding the offensive appearance, the Basque also stood out, since it received the balloon in 101 occasions, hitting in 85 of the 90 passes that tried (94%). Aunado To this, completed 12 long passes of the 15 that executed. This performance memorable reinforces his position like a stellar defender in LaLiga and presents like an attractive option for Xavi in a moment in which the FC Barcelona has shortage of defenders.
