Real Sociedad captain, Asier Illarramendi, was injured again during training without having made his debut after overcoming the convalescence that had kept him in the dry dock since the start of the season, during which period he underwent surgery twice. The 'txuriurdin' footballer was injured on the third day of the league in the field of Athletic Bilbao and, since then, he suffered a slow recovery process with ups and downs and was unable to play any matches. Last Sunday, almost 300 days after that injury, he returned to a call and warmed up in the band anticipating some of the five changes that Imanol Alguacil could make, although he did not get to enter the field of play. The loss of Merino, after the card that the Navarrese player saw in the last match against Osasuna, suggested that perhaps Illarramendi could return to play the next match against Alavés.
However, in training last Monday he suffered a grade two injury to the adductor muscle of his left hip that will prevent him from being part of the call against the Mendizorroza team. As reported by the Royal Society on its website, Illarramendi has already begun to be treated by physiotherapy and “the return to his usual activities will be progressive, conditioned by the evolution of the process.” The realistic club has also reported that the injury that prevented Luca Sangalli from entering the call for the match against Osasuna consists of “an instability of the left kneecap” that, “after completing the relevant study”, will force him “to be intervened surgically in the next few days. “