MOSCOW, September 17 – Russian football player Arsen Zakharyan was not included in the starting lineup of Real Sociedad for the match of the fifth round of the Spanish championship against Real Madrid, according to the account of the team from San Sebastian on the social network X (formerly the social network Twitter).

The meeting will take place in Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday and will begin at 22:00 Moscow time. Zakharyan will start the match on the bench.

It was previously reported that Zakharyan was out of action during the international break due to illness, but earlier this week he returned to the general group and was preparing for the match with Real along with everyone else.