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Illarramendi has returned to training with the group today in Zubieta and he has options to be summoned to the San Mamés derby, the match with which the Real will close the 2020 football match on New Year's Eve. Although the mutrikuarra did not exercise with the group on Saturday, the date on which Imanol He regrouped his squad in Zubieta after three days of partying, both yesterday and today he has trained normally, continuing his rehabilitation process that has led him to exercise more or less without problems for two months. The casualties in today's session were again the same as yesterday, so that Moya, Zaldua, Januzaj and Sangalli will not be available to Bilbao, at the expense of what you decide Imanol with Illarramendi. The captain traveled with the expedition to the double confrontation against Barcelona and Levante, but did not get to play.
If the technician had decided to have Illarra on Thursday, Real would have 22 players available to face Athletic. Yesterday, just like it happens since Moya fell injured, the goalkeepers of the Sanse
Ayesa and Marrero trained with the first team so, except that Sheriff move two substitute goalkeepers to the derby, would have just 23 for the call. Yes Illarramendi does not enter the summons, Urko
Gonzalez
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Zarate or Robert
Navarrese they could be chosen to complete the bench in Bilbao.
If Imanol will recruit Illarra, the Real captain could close the circle where he was injured in August 2019. 15 months ago, with the fibula fracture he suffered against Athletic, the mutrikuarra He entered a dark black tunnel from which he has not yet emerged. Although he was called up for the game against Osasuna last season, after confinement, in the summer he underwent surgery for a long adductor injury and has not been able to play again. The Gipuzkoan, who will turn 31 in March, has not played a single minute since the derby of the first round of the 18/19 season and the Athletic-Real Thursday becomes his last chance not to spend all of 2020 blank.