As a former Real Sociedad player, Zubimendi would have been desperate to win at San Mames, and he played an important role in the victory \u2013 which was only his second ever victory at the ground, the other coming back in his first visit in December 2020, as four consecutive defeats followed in the years after.<\/p>\n
And speaking post-match to Cadena SER<\/a>, Zubimendi recognised his dismal San Mames record as a La Real player.<\/p>\n \u201cI had already warned (my teammates) in advance that it was not going to be easy, I\u2019m not going to lie to you. It\u2019s a special ground where it has been very difficult for me to win, so I\u2019m happy to do it. I don\u2019t think over-motivation is good for us. Thinking so much about it being a special match doesn\u2019t suit us.\u201d<\/p>\n Zubimendi also took the opportunity to send a message to La Real and its supporters on his return to the Basque country.<\/p>\n \u201cI send them a lot of encouragement. The start has not being easy, but they are a more than good enough team to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n It certainly has been a difficult start to the new season for La Real, who are winless after their opening four matches (two draws, two defeats). New head coach Sergio Francisco will be desperate to get off the mark, especially as El Derbi Vasco is not too far away \u2013 Athletic are pencilled in to make the trip to the Reale Arena on the first weekend in November.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Former Real Sociedad star Martin Zubimendi reacts to winning at San Mames with Arsenal<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday, Athletic Club were defeated by Arsenal in their opening league phase match of this season\u2019s Champions League. Victory was sweet for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/athletic-club-v-real-sociedad-la-liga-ea-sports-min-scaled.jpg\")
Zubimendi sends message to La Real supporters<\/h2>\n