The Real open the matchday 35 of the League with the sole purpose of defeating Elche (Anoeta, 9:00 p.m.) and remaining unattainable for their pursuers in the fight for fifth place and the two places that give the option to play the Europe
League before visiting on Wednesday the Athletic
from
Madrid, aspiring to win the title. The gang of Imanol has been rebuilding physically and emotionally from the blow that was the unexpected defeat in Huesca and faces with enthusiasm and some highs of thunder this home meeting before a Elche, who, installed in the 19th place of the table, needs the food of the points to survive. But it is the penultimate appointment of the course in Anoreta and the donostiarras are not willing to miss another point. The conquest of the Cup has not taken away an iota of hunger or motivation. They want to finish fifth to be the first of the other classification, that of earthlings. The order is big. 'Goleína' against fatigue.
For such a noble task, the royalists must vary their trend of results, since they have obtained only two victories in the last eight games -and eight points out of 24-, those that surround the unforgettable final of Seville, and tonight is the right occasion. After the trigger of The
Alcoraz, Real are once again measured to the penultimate classified, in this case an Elche that has only won six games out of 34 and that away from home is the worst team in the First Division, with only two victories in 17 games and 10 points out of 51. The occasion It is 24 karat gold. A victory, in addition to putting Villarreal and Betis back to almost two wins before they played their matches, would mathematically seal the European contest if Granada and Athletic do not win.
With Silva everything changes
Imanol is blessed to recover for his initial ‘eleven’ to David
Silva. It is not a trivial reinforcement. It is 'the reinforcement'. Of the 12 matches in which the Gran Canaria has been able to play more than 70 minutes, Real has won ten and tied one. He only lost against him Athletic. With him as playmaker, La Real, as seen when he came out against Huesca last week, recovers his most natural and symphonic version. The coach also continues to have all his offensive artillery ready, except Carlos
Fernandez, who does not finish recovering from the contracture in the gluteus suffered before the Celtic.
The pleasant surprise came with the announcement of a call in which there were two footballers who were considered discarded: Illarramendi Y Zubeldia, recovered almost miraculously from their respective ailments. So just Merino, Aihen, Carlos
Fernandez Y Sangalli they live in the infirmary. Regarding the initial ‘eleven’, everything indicates that Zubimendi Y Guevara will be the lieutenants of Silva in the medullary and that the offensive triplet will be the usual one: For your, Isak Y Oyarzabal.
Scribe, in Elche, comes with everything except Mojica, since it recovers to Cheek, and could make a change thinking about the home game against him Alaves Wednesday, his ‘finalísima’. They have not won abroad for six months and they have never done it in Donostia in the First Division. Friday night fever with curfew. Today the Real plays.