MADRID, 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Sociedad will face the Basque derby this Sunday against Athletic Club (9:00 p.m.) with the aim of maintaining the leadership of LaLiga Santander, in a twelfth day in which RCD Espanyol hopes to climb positions at the expense of bottom line Getafe (6:30 p.m.) and in which RCD Mallorca needs to regain the victorious path against a Cádiz that aspires to get out of the descent (2:00 p.m.).
His victory in Balaídos (0-2) and the stumbling blocks of Real Madrid and Sevilla FC allowed those of Imanol Alguacil (24) to stay on Thursday alone at the top of the qualifying table, with three points of income over the whites , the Nervionenses and Real Betis (21).
Without the injured Mikel Oyarzabal, Asier Illarramendi, Carlos Fernández, Jon Guridi and Nacho Monreal and with the doubt of Ander Barrenetxea, the San Sebastian team will seek to add for the fourteenth consecutive game – they have not fallen from the first match against Barça and are undefeated in the League Europe – against an opponent they have beaten in three of their last four matches, the last of them in the 2020 postponed Cup final.
In last season’s duel at the Reale Arena, a goal from Roberto López in the 89th minute neutralized the goal just a few minutes before Villalibre to resolve a draw (1-1).
Meanwhile, the ‘lions’ (17), the team with the least thrashed in the category (6), accumulate four consecutive scoring dates and are only two units away from the continental zone. Now, they are planted in Anoeta with five casualties but with Iñigo Martínez, who will again face each other with his former team, recovered from gastroenteritis; Vivian, Yuri Berchiche, Oier Zarraga, Asier Villalibre and Peru Nolaskoain will miss the match due to injury.
For its part, RCD Espanyol (14) seeks to get closer to Europe after adding in the last four days, in which it partially slowed down the cruising speed achieved with its triumphs against Real Madrid (2-1) and Cádiz (2- 0) with two draws against Elche (2-2) and Athletic (1-1).
Against the blue and white team, Getafe need yes or yes to add the first victory of the season after losing two points this Thursday against Granada by a goal in the 97th minute from an ex-blue like Jorge Molina (1-1). Those of Quique Sánchez Flores are last with only three units, five from the salvation zone.
Raúl de Tomás, sent off against Athletic, and the injured Óscar Gil and Keidi Bare will be the absences of the parakeet at the Alfonso Pérez Coliseum, where the locals will not be able to count on the sanctioned Chema Rodríguez or Sabit Abdulai, Vitolo, Sandro Ramírez and Jakub Jankto, all injured.
Finally, in the Nuevo Mirandilla, Cádiz hopes to abandon the burning zone before RCD Mallorca, which scores with the same 8 points as the permanent positions, and take a breath after six days without winning in which they have reaped three points .
The vermilion box (13), for its part, continues in the middle part of the table despite not having won in its last three games, in which it has signed a defeat against the leader (1-0) and two draws against Valencia (2-2) and Seville (1-1).
Luis García Plaza will not have Jaume Costa, Take Kubo or Antonio Raillo available, and the cadista team will regret the losses of Varazdat Haroyan, Jon Ander Garrido, José Mari and Martín Calderón.
–SUNDAY PROGRAM IN LALIGA SANTANDER.
Cádiz – Mallorca. Pizarro Gómez (C. Madrid) 14.00.
Atlético de Madrid – Betis. Alberola Rojas (CC-manchego) 16.15.
Getafe – Espanyol. Muñiz Ruiz (C. Gallego) 18.30.
Real Sociedad – Athletic. Martínez Munuera (C. Valenciano) 21.00.