Paradoxes of destiny. For a whole decade, Alex
Remiro He was trained in Lezama to one day become the guardian of San Mamés, but in the end he will make his debut in the rojiblanco coliseum as the titular goalkeeper of the Real Sociedad. Despite his progression and his evident talent, he never got to play in the Bilbao first team, among other things because he was blocked by his contemporary Kepa
Arrizabalaga, and when he seemed closer to reaching that dream moment, he decided to accept the offer of the Real and cross the A-8 motorway in 2019. The facts dictate that he was completely right with that decision that caused him such bad times in Bilbao , where he spent a year in white and curdled with pressure to renew. The one from Cascante opens the grass of the Bilbao court already established as the starting goalkeeper txuri urdin and presenting numbers that distinguish him among the best in the League in his position. Almost nothing.
“Of course it was worth coming to Real, I would be happy to be in this club even after having been a blank second year,” Remiro told MD. It was not like that, because last season txuri urdin soon took over the goal, but in the first games he played Moya, since the technicians wanted to protect him on that third day to play in Bilbao. Remiro witnessed the defeat (2-0) from the bench. Six months later, he was able to compensate in the first match against the team that saw him grow with the victory in Anoeta (2-1).
Motivation tank overflowing
It is not uncommon for Cascante to come to this game with a full tank of motivation. He wants to win to cut the bleeding of nine games without doing it. He wants to keep his clean sheet for the eighth time in 17 league games, but he also aspires to prove himself where he couldn't. Remiro He made a stop at fate and had to come to Donostia, where it is taking decades to manufacture a goalkeeper for the quarry, to be baptized in San Mamés.
The sound of Bilbao's silence
TO Remiro A hostile environment would await him in the rojiblanco fiefdom, where last year the fact of not being a starter had already spoiled him. For this reason, the absolute absence of an audience may make such a special meeting lighter and more bearable. It will have 53,289 red, empty and silent seats opposite. “I am not anyone's villain. And less being a goalkeeper. If he scored goals, still. I was happy in Bilbao and I am very happy here. I made the decision with all due respect, period ”, he says.
Remiro it landed in Lezama in 2009, after carrying out various tests. First he lived with a friendly family, then in the Derio residence and finally, already in the branch, in his own home. In Bilbao Athletic he played for four seasons in which he played 56 games. He was on loan to Levante and Huesca, both in Second. He made his debut in Primera on September 26, 2019 with Real against Alavés (3-0).
The year before, he passed it blank. Urrutia and Love you, president and sports director of Athletic, presented him with a renewal offer and made him see that, if he did not sign, his options to play were zero. So it was.
The third best coefficient
Season of Alex
Remiro It is being very good, although it was much more so until a few weeks ago, when the free fall began. So far, he has conceded only 14 goals in 15 games. Therefore, its coefficient is 0.97 per game, the third best in the League, only surpassed by Jan
Oblak (0.38), from Atlético de Madrid, and Bond (0.70), from Sevilla.
In the League, he has played 16 full games, 1,440 minutes in total. In seven stakes he has managed to keep his clean sheet, the last time against Alavés in Mendizorrotza last day 6. In the Europa League he has also played everything, except for one game, against AZ Alkmaar at home, where he played Moya.
In search of balance
At 25, Remiro He has 52 games for Real, in which he has conceded 53 goals. If he manages to leave his clean sheet for the nineteenth time in the txuri urdin squad, he will balance his figures and have conceded a goal per stake on average. When he plays five more games, Real will become the team in which he has played the most times.
Alex
Remiro He already visited San Mamés last year as a goalkeeper for the Real, but in those days he was the substitute for Miguel
Angel
Moya. On August 30, 2019, the day of the last derby in El Botxo, it was unfortunate for Real, with a 2-0 defeat; for Illarra, because he was injured and has not returned to play 487 days later; and for Remiro, who was also the subject of a certain joke by a sector of the stands. His free march to the Royal did not sit well with a part of the Bilbao parish who sang a: ‘And what? Remirowhat? ', with the tone that in Anoeta was used to encourage Willian
José. Almost a year and a half later, the Cascante goalkeeper can take revenge for that and for his blank season.
Ayesa and Marrero, ready to debut
San Mamés is propitious ground for the unexpected to happen and on more than one occasion Real has been harmed by an early expulsion that mediated the subsequent development of the game. Therefore, it cannot be completely ruled out that San Mamés is the temple where a 19-year-old goalkeeper from the Real quarry is baptized. And it is that this is the age that contemplates the identity card of the two goalkeepers who, before the injury of Miguel
Angel
Moya, they cover the backs of the Navarrese: Gaizka
Ayesa
Burgui, by Ansoain, and Unai
Marrero
Larrañaga, from San Sebastian who has not even debuted with the subsidiary. As it is a home game, the most logical thing is that Imanol takes both of them to Bilbao.