Ander Barrenetxea FUE One of the most outstanding notes of the Liguero premiere of the Real Sociedad In Mestalla. Not only because he signed a brave encounter, always asking for the ball and facing his pair, but for the meaning he had in his personal career: The Donostiarra again completed an entire official party more than three and a half years later. Specifically, since that December 1, 2021 in Copa del Rey before the polished bakery, he did not play the 90 minutes with the Txuri Urdin shirt in official competition. 1,355 days have passed to do it again, a wait marked by injuries, relapses and a progressive rehabilitation that now seems to have been left behind.
Barrenetxea with the Royal Society
The data was already advanced by Mundo Deportivo during the preseason last week, when Barrenetxea completed the entire match against Bournemouth, but he kept being friendly. Mestalla was different: a scenario of maximum demand, before a combative valence and with the pressure of opening the season. Barrenetxea responded in the best way, with a personality deployment that was reflected in the numbers. He touched the ball 58 times, completed 27 of his 36 passes (75% success) and risked in each offensive action. His style does not understand calculation, but of bravery, and demonstrates the 18 lost possessions that, Far from being a mole, they talk about their insistence on facing and looking for the differential play.
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The footballer himself recognized after the clash the importance of starting with good foot: “It is important to start scoring. The beginnings are important in long leagues, they give you moral. The team has reacted well to the embedded goal. We want more, ”he said in a mixed area. Barrenetxea wanted to underline that the point will have more value if confirmed with a victory next week in Anoeta:”This point will be good if next week we won at home. We want to be with our people”An ambitious message that reflects the trust with which this season faces.
Barrenetxea in a preseason training with the Royal Society
On the sports plane, the Real found at the end a constant focus of danger on the left. His mobility gave air to midfielders, allowed to set the Valencian defense and generated spaces that took advantage of both Brais and Oyarzabal and Aihen. Sergio Francisco opted for him Initially and the player responded, demonstrating that he is prepared to recover the site that bad luck with the injuries had taken him out.
