The anti-divo footballer, the one who combined his Business career with his rise in football, threatens the upward line of Atlético de Madrid. Mikel Oyarzabal (Eibar, 1997) bursts into the Civitas Metropolitano this Sunday (4:15 p.m.) with the intention of making the existence of Oblak and a defense that has lost the solidity of yesteryear bitter.. The forward of Real Sociedad, flag of the txuri urdin, regains notoriety. He has scored in the last four games (three in the League and one in the Champions League) and on Friday he returned to a national team call-up.. Everything is the same again after that damn injury that kept him out for more than nine months and kept him out of the World Cup in Qatar.
“Mikel is one of the best players in the history of Real Sociedad,” says Imanol Alguacil, a coach who has never doubted the performance and reliability of the left-footed player.. In this League he has played eight games, four as a starter and on three occasions he has been substituted. With three goals (one from a penalty) he is the second most effective in his club, only surpassed by Kubo. He has one assist and is third in the shot ranking (four), behind Kubo and Barrenetxea.
Oyarzabal has gained momentum and does not stop. At 26 years old he appears on the list of illustrious scorers of Real Sociedad. He already has 87 goals, he is the club's top scorer in the 21st century and has entered the top ten of the San Sebastian entity, headed by Jesús María Satrústegui, with 162 goals. The second is Roberto López Ufarte, with 129.
De la Fuente's support
The captain assumes the responsibility of wearing the stripes of the team of his life and flees from individualism. «I work to try to make Real win. I only think about doing what the coach asks me to do. “You have to be together and grit your teeth,” explains the forward, who in his beginnings in football shared a flat with students from the University of Deusto and who always preferred to manage his contracts with his family apart from the managers.
He signed with Real Sociedad in 2016 and has a contract until 2028. His main objectives of the course are to qualify Real for European competitions and be called up for the Euro Cup.. The competition up front in the national team is great, but he trusts in his experience and the support of Luis de la Fuente. On Friday he re-entered a list of those chosen.
289 days off
His numbers with Spain are 23 games, six goals, nine wins, eight draws and six losses.. Revenues that could have been more succulent if he had not been punished by misfortune. On March 17, 2022, in training with Real, he tore the knee ligament in his left leg.. He was out for 289 days and was not able to return to the fields until December 31 of that month.
Oyarzabal turned the page and now leads a brilliant Real Sociedad that seeks to stop the progression of a decimated Atlético. This Sunday, Correa is out again, suffering from his sprained knee. His absence joins those of Memphis, Reinildo, Barrios, Lemar, Soyuncu and Giménez. «We need to have the ball more, but for that we need energy. Nobody cares that we play every three days, but with the losses we have I am very happy with what we are doing. “I am very grateful to players like Witsel or Azpilicueta, who are 34 years old,” Simeone stressed on the eve of the match.