Second general practice of Real Sociedad in its stadium. A week after the league premiere, the txuri-urdin team has returned to exercise at the Reale Arena to continue adapting to what they will find next Sunday against Osasuna, the empty stands, without their enthusiastic fans, with which that spirit of the disappeared Atotxa has been recovered and which has been noticed so much in their matches at home this season. Imanol Alguacil does not want to leave anything for improvisation, he wants everything to be under control for June 14, to the point that he is already shaping his eleven for that meeting on day 28.
Just like I did last Wednesday, in this second session of the week at the Reale Arena also He has organized a game against the entire field of eleven against eleven between all the players of the first team and the kids of the subsidiary that these days are exercised under his command in this kind of mini-season. A training in which the only notable absence has been that of Ander Guevara, who continues to recover from his sprained right ankle. It was a full-blown friendly, that is, with substitute players waiting for their chance just behind the benchAs if it were a simulation of what can be found against Osasuna in his first game on the straight.
Imanol has also taken the opportunity to continue shaping his eleven to play that game on day 28, with Remiro, Zaldua, Monreal, Llorente, Aritz Elustondo, Zubeldia, Merino, Ødegaard and Oyarzabal with an advantage over the rest of their teammates to start from that Osasuna visit, although he may still have some doubt to finish completing the starting team. In attack, Willian José or Alexander Isak will play, in the band if Januzaj or Portu leaves, or if Le Normand may have a chance to make a hole in the back axis. More or less the idea of the team can be clear, but in this case with a gap for doubt, because no one knows better than the coach from Oriotarra how his players have returned from confinement, how they have exercised in this complex preseason time and how they therefore reach the restart of the competition. This Sunday will be the last time they will step on the Reale Arena until the match against Osasuna arrives, because throughout this week they will exercise in Zubieta. Five sessions ahead, all in the morning, and a single day of rest that will be on Tuesday, to arrive in the best conditions at the return of football in our country.