Real Sociedad – Athletic, derby between two teams thrown

This Sunday at the Real Arena is a Basque derby in style, especially for the Real society who is an outstanding and deserved leader in the table, but also for the Athletic, who is in a good moment of play and results and determined to rise to the noble zone of the classification.

La Real, unbeaten at home, he will not be able to count on Mikel Oyarzabal, but it has a Alex Isak in top form after a spectacular October to remain in the lead before playing many of their Europa League options against Sturm Graz on Thursday.

Swedish striker Isaac He has been a busy month, he has scored goals with his national team, also with Real in Europe and finally managed to inaugurate his scoring account in LaLiga last day against Celta, a good sign that the Donostiarras will want to continue exploiting.

The excellent performance of the Australian goalkeeper Matthew Ryan against Celta introduces a doubt also in the goal, but here Alex RemiroIn his best season as a txuri-urdin goalkeeper, without being the undisputed starter for Sunday, he has experience in this type of match as a great asset in his favor.

Above the temptation to play with the two giants, Sorloth e Isaac, is another possibility, but the skilled Januzaj O Barrenetxea They also have options in the wide palette of resources of Imanol Sheriff this season.

For its part, after adding seven points in three games, the Bilbao team is eighth and very close to the European positions, two points from the Europa League and four from the Champions League.

As much as that good run of results, which also translates into a single defeat in the ten games played, what excites the rojiblancos fans is the game that the team led by Marcelino Garcia Toral.

A fluid and vertical football that generates many chances and with which he beat a week ago at Villarreal at San Mamés (2-1) and he overwhelmed a Espanyol in Cornellá-El Prat on Tuesday, which the splendid performance of Diego Lopez, but before the one who could not go from a tie to one.

With that good taste, the Athletic visit the Real Arena ready to chain their sixth game without losing away. A good visiting streak, where he has not lost yet, even with only one victory.

To tomorrow’s clash, Athletic goes with “the resentment” of the Cup final lost the previous season in the most classic of the Basque derbies, as he confessed during the week Yeray Alvarez. A defeat that hurt a lot in Bilbao and that the Biscayan team wants to close with a victory at the Reale Arena, something he did not achieve last season (1-1), just after the final, due to a serious mistake made between Unai Simon and Unai Nunez defensive already with the game ending.

Marcelino you can count on Íñigo Martínez, come down last minute on Tuesday for stomach problems, but not with Daniel Vivian, the central young man who has done so well replacing the absent Yeray. The brave central defender of Barakaldo, however, has already recovered from the injury to a patellar tendon that has had him out since the preseason and reappeared against Espanyol at a very good level.

Probable lineups:

Real society: Remiro; Gorosabel, Zubeldia, Le Normand, Muñoz; Zubimendi, Silva, Merino; Isaac, Sorloth or Januzaj and Portu.

Athletic: Unai Simón; Lekue, Yeray, Íñigo Martínez, Balenziaga; Berenguer, Vencedor, Dani García, Muniain; Raúl García and Iñaki Williams.

Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Valencian Committee).

VAR arbitrator: Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva (Galician Committee).

Stadium: Reale Arena (Sunday 21:00).