The success of the season has been coral and Imanol
Sheriff he had to draw on everyone at the end, including some Sanse players, to finish a very long and difficult season, especially the end. However, the Real coach has had a very well-defined eleven and has especially used a block of 13 players of his complete confidence. Injuries and the accumulation of games at certain times such as January and February allowed the coach to open more the range of his staff but there is a good bunch of players whose presence, if not testimonial, has been rather rare during the course.
The eleven players who are part of the standard team have covered 73% of the total minutes of the course, so the second unit has kept the remaining 27%. And that in the last days the trend reversed a lot and Imanol regularly arranged for footballers like Zubimendi and Moyá, who had had little prominence during the course. In fact, the youth squad had not even been released this season.
The members of the eleven type of the Royal, ordered by number of minutes played, are Merino (3,144 minutes), Oyarzabal (3,063), Zubeldia (2,638), Zaldua (2,551), Odegaard (2,532), For your (2,392), Monreal (2,392), You
Normand (2,388), Llorente (2,327), Remiro (2,250) and Willian
Joseph (2,017). They are the players who have passed the 2,000 minutes and, therefore, hovered or exceeded 60% of the minutes.
The curious case of Isak
Two other footballers who have also had a presence and prominence have been Aritz, player number 12 with 1,503 minutes and Isak, with 1,499. Significant and curious is the case of the Swede, who has played 37 of the 38 league games, 14 of them as a starter, and who has scored nine goals only in the league. But it is realistic number 13.
Regarding the weight of the quarry in the team, the number of participants is high, but not the number of participants. 15 out of the 26 realistic used by Imanol
Sheriff (58%) come from the txuri urdin players factory, but in terms of minutes played, the signed or foreign footballers have played 61.9% of the time (23,284 minutes) and those forged in Zubieta, 38 % (14,296). Among the members of the eleven type, there are only three youth squads: Zaldua, Zubeldia and Oyarzabal, which increase to four if you include You
Normand, the most used center back, who was signed for Sanse.
The essential footballers for the coach, those who have exceeded the 90% participation threshold, have been Mikel
Merino (92%) and Mikel
Oyarzabal (90%).