Athletic and Real Sociedad face each other with their sights set on Europe

Athletic Club and Real Sociedad meet this Sunday in San Mamés with their sights set on Europe, where they are in full tie against RB Leipzig a team from San Sebastian also in continental positions in LaLiga and where the Bilbao team wants to be next season.

In those claims reach one of the first six places of the table, Athletic suffered a serious setback on the last day in his visit to Mallorcaagainst whom he fell 3-2 in a very disappointing match even for his coach, Marcelino García Toral.

The rojiblanco team saw his good streak stopped in 2022, a exceptional start to the year with seven wins, two draws and only one loss in ten games played.

To receive the Real, Marcelino recovers several important players who could not be against Mallorca such as Íñigo Martínez, suspended, Yeray and Oscar de Marcos and Unai Vencedor.

The realmeanwhile, appears in San Mamés with significant casualties and pushed by the good results with a single defeat in 2022 to seek a victory that settles him in the European places and, incidentally, move away from an Athletic that has four points.

The Donostiarras are sure to drop Adnan Januzaj, Diego Rico, Nacho Monreal, Carlos Fernández and Ander Barrenetxea and between cottons Alex Isak, absent in the European match against Leipzig this Thursday.

Imanol Alguacil will have to resort to the subsidiary and squeeze footballers who are playing everything in recent games such as Mikel Oyarzabal, Portu or Mikel Merino, while doubts persist about the physical condition of a David Silva who was booked in Germany and who saw everything the game from the bench.

Balance favorable to Real

San Mamés is a more than favorable scenario for the people of San Sebastian, they have only lost three games in their last ten visits and the Real clearly commands in the history of confrontations of the last decade.

there will be no this time fans of the txuri urdin team at the rojiblanco stadium, since the Biscayan club did not send tickets to San Sebastián because the maximum capacity allowed by health restrictions, 85 percent, is occupied by its members and subscribers. And, therefore, has not put any ticket for sale.

Likely lineups

Athletic: Unai Simon; De Marcos, Yeray, Íñigo Martínez, Yuri; Berenguer, Victor, Dani García, Muniain; Sancet, Raul Garcia.

Real society: Ryan or Remiro; Gorosabel, Elustondo, Le Normand, Aihen Muñoz; Zubimendi, Merino, Rafinha; Portu, Oyarzabal, Sorloth.

Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Valencian Committee).

VAR Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Valencian Committee).

Stadium: San Mames.

Hour: 21:00