Real Sociedad and Athletic face the derby with the aim of staying at the top of the standings
Euskaraz irakurri: Reala eta Athletic, derbia irabazteko helburuarekin sailkapenaren goialdean finkatzeko
Real society and Athletic Club They will face each other this Saturday, September 30 at the Reale Arena. He basque derby will begin at 9:00 p.m. and corresponds to the 7th day of LaLiga EA Sports.
Both teams They arrive at the appointment at the top of the classification: Athletic Club is fourth with 14 pointswhile Real Sociedad occupies sixth place with a total of 12 points. Therefore, the objective of both teams will be to win to establish themselves at the top of the table.
The Statistics of the last derbies played in Anoeta between txuri-urdines and rojiblancos are totally favorable to the Royal Societygiven that Athletic Club has not been able to win at Real Sociedad’s home in the last six derbies; To find a victory for the rojiblancos in the royalist fiefdom, you have to go back to on March 12, 2017, when the team led by Ernesto Valverde won 0-2. However, since then, Real Sociedad has beaten the Biscayan team on four occasions (3-1 in the 2017-2018 and 2022-2023 campaigns and 2-1 in the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 campaigns), and In two others (2020-2021 and 2021-2022) the final result was a tie to one (1-1).
The group led by Imanol Alguacil arrives at the derby after linking two consecutive victories against Getafe and Valencia respectively. Therefore, Real wants to continue with that good dynamic and achieve what would be its third consecutive victory. Sheriff rotated against Valencia and reserved the majority of starters for the clash against Athletic Club. In principle, the Oriotarra coach will have all his players available.
For its part, Athletic faces the derby after beating Alavés two days ago and drawing with Getafe on the last day disputed until now. Coach Ernesto Valverde you won’t be able to count on him Ruiz de Galarreta injured not even with him sanctioned Oihan Sancet who saw the red card against Getafe. Instead, Nico Williams will be available who has been out due to injury in recent days.
Source: Eitb
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