And there are still people who question what is in this Royal Society. They continue to deny bread to the one who is the watchword of this team. The one who never does anything has reappeared when Real needed him most, when the doubts generated around him were in serious danger of engulfing a project that, it must be said, has not started in the best possible way. In these moments of indecision and a lot of noise, the captain appears as the best handhold to hold on to surf the waves of distrust. Because he never fails. He does not do it either in the National Team nor, much less, in a team that in a short space of time has been left orphaned by references such as Le Normand, Merino and Zubimendi. Although the true leader has always been him.
2
Álex Remiro, Sergio Gómez (Pablo Marín, min. 85), Jon Martín, Igor Zubeldia, Jon Aramburu, Gonçalo Guedes (Aihen Muñoz, min. 68), Yangel Herrera (Carlos Soler, min. 32), Ander Barrenetxea (Arsen Zakharyan, min. 68), Jon Gorrotxategi, Brais Méndez (Beñat Turrientes, min. 68) and Mikel Oyarzabal
1
Odysseas Vlachodimos, Gabriel Suazo, Fábio Cardoso (Chidera Ejuke, min. 51), José Ángel Carmona, Marcão, Djibril Sow (Alfon González, min. 78), Rubén Vargas, Alexis Sánchez (Juanlu Sánchez, min. 51), Nemanja Gudelj, Lucien Agoumé (Peque Fernández, min. 52) y Isaac Romero (Akor Adams, min. 65)
Goals
1-0 min. 18: Oyarzabal. 1-1 min. 29: Gudelj. 2-1 min. 35: Oyarzabal
Referee Adrian Cordero Vega
yellow cards
Lucien Agoume (min. 33), Djibril Sow (min. 49), José Ángel Carmona (min. 56), Oyarzabal (min. 92)
Oyarzabal, who today celebrates ten years in the First Division and had the anniversary very much in mind, believed more than anyone in the action that gave rise to the first goal. Everyone, including Alexis Sánchez, thought that the ball was going to end up going over the baseline, but no. The 10th ran as if his life depended on it, saved the ball, put it to Guedes and his center ended up hitting Cardoso’s arm. The judge, Cordero Vega, did not doubt it. He whistled one of those penalties so fashionable in today’s football that, in another time, would have gone unnoticed. Mikel Oyarzabal caught the ball. He did not hesitate in his launch and completely fooled Odysseas. 1-0.
They say that joy is short-lived in the poor’s house. La Real, for some time now, knows a lot about this. Just ten minutes of that high, first, Gudelj, with the small collaboration of Gorrotxategi, reduced the illusion, and a few minutes later, Yangel Herrera, the supposed cornerstone of this project, retired injured to the locker room. The Venezuelan international is not having any luck in his first months as a blue and white. But right there, in another moment of mistrust, the figure of Mikel Oyarzabal emerged again. Carmona and Gudelj did not understand each other during a throw-in at the edge of their area, which Brais Méndez took advantage of to assist the captain and he – who let the ball pass and hit him first after turning on himself – to bring another joy to a fan in need of good news.
The truth is that Real is not up for many frills. Neither does Matías Almeida’s Sevilla, which has two consecutive defeats. Any time in the past was better, fans of both teams will think. That stage of exquisiteness, of beautiful play, of even glory, to the disappointment of the nearly 31,000 spectators who came to the blue and white coliseum, has passed away and now, at this point in the season, when the rush to score points takes precedence over everything, the players of both teams try to use other attributes to try to cover up the many shortcomings that they are showing, sometimes making mistakes. inappropriate for equipment of such a level.
Within the current mediocrity, Real was better and took the three points. . The fans, for now, too.
