Goalkeepers Unai Simón (Athletic Club), Marc André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona) and Álex Remiro (Real Sociedad) face the last day of LaLiga EA Sports next weekend with the aim of winning the ‘Zamora’ award, which distinguishes the goalkeeper with the fewest goals scored in the competition, and for which the red-and-white goalkeeper starts with an advantage.

With everything decided regarding qualifying positions, one of the attractions of the last day of LaLiga EA Sports are the individual prizes. Among them is the ‘Zamora’ trophy and for which they fight three of the best goalkeepers in the First Division such as Unai Simón, Marc André ter Stegen and Álex Remiro.

Simón, the one with the most options

The person best placed to win the trophy is the national team’s starting goalkeeper, who He has conceded 33 goals in the 35 games in which he has played at least 60 minutes of playso it has a coefficient of 0.94. Thus, the Athletic Club goalkeeper would win his first ‘Zamora’ trophy if he keeps a clean sheet during the last matchday against Rayo Vallecano, thus managing to win an award that has not been won by a red-and-white goalkeeper since ‘Txopo’ Iribar (1970) .

But this is not the only way in which Simón would achieve ‘Zamora’. The Vitorian goalkeeper He could win the award without having to play, but he would need Ter Stegen to concede a goal in FC Barcelona’s last league match against Sevilla at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán. However, if he played and conceded goals, he would need the German to concede the same number of goals and for Remiro to at least concede one goal less than him.

This is why Athletic, who plays their match before FC Barcelona, ​​and Ernesto Valverde have the dilemma of whether or not to field their goalkeeper in next Saturday’s match against Rayo Vallecano. In fact, It is likely that, as happened against RC Celta, Unai Simón will be substituted in the 61st minute of play and thus not expose him to receiving more goals.

Ter Stegen’s options

For his part, Ter Stegen’s options to achieve his second ‘Zamora’ in a row They mainly go through keeping a clean sheet against Sevilla. If he achieves this, the German would win the victory if Unai Simón does not play or if he does and fits.

It would be much more complicated in case of receiving a goal, needing the Athletic player to concede one more goal than him and for Remiro, at least, to receive the same.

Álex Remiro’s options

Finally, the third in line to lift the ‘Zamora’, although not ruled out in this equation, is Álex Remiro. The Real Sociedad goalkeeper is currently the third in discord with a coefficient of 0.97 resulting from having conceded 34 goals in 35 games that has played.

Thus, the international goalkeeper needs to win the winding thatfirst, Unai Simón plays in Vallecas and concedes at least one goal, second, keep a clean sheet and, third, that Ter Stegen receives a goal.

Simón and Remiro could share a title

Finally, there is a possibility that Unai Simón and Álex Remiro share the title. This It would happen if Athletic’s goalkeeper receives one more goal than Real’s and, at the same time, Ter Stegen receives the same goals as ‘txuri urdin’ goalkeeper.

If it happened, it would be the first time since the 1992-1993 season, a year in which Santi Cañizares and Francisco Liaño achieved it, that two goalkeepers shared ‘Zamora’.

Source: Eitb

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