“Losing the Cup final against Real was a very big hit”

Yeray aims for ownership next Sunday at Anoeta. The rojiblanco central defender, who returned to the team last Tuesday against Espanyol after overcoming problems in the patellar tendon in his right leg that had prevented him from making his debut in this league so far, has all the ballots to cover the absence of the injured Vivian . Barakaldo’s defender is eager to face Real.

“Losing the Cup final against Real was a very big hit. You play against your lifelong rival, the one next to home, a final in a derby … You will tell me how we spent the rest of the months” Yeray points out when asked in Lezama about what happened in La Cartuja.

The Athletic center-back is clear, in any case, that “a long time has passed and what happened last weekend has already ended last weekend and this year we have to start another different Cup. In the end, they are numbers and we have to look at it. that way”.

Returning to that lost Cup final, the rojiblanco footballer insists that “they beat us, congratulate them, they did great and at that moment he could have fallen on our side, but he fell on his side. We have to accept it, assume it and not give it more. importance.”

Yeray emphasizes that “we are playing against them this weekend. They are in a great moment, but we are too and we know that if we win on Sunday, we will get fully into that fight for the main positions. It is one more derby, but we want to win it because we have that resentment of the Cup final “.

Days after falling in that final, Athletic paid a league visit to Anoeta and Real signed the tie at one on the edge of regulation time. Yeray recalls that “in the end we were unlucky because of the goal is that they put us in, but after the stick we took we knew how to turn it around and we played a great game there, even though I got injured. We don’t have to think about whether they beat us or They didn’t beat us. This is the League, the two teams are in a very good moment and we are going to go for the three points “.

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