Real Sociedad and Athletic are halfway | Soccer | Sports

Real Sociedad and Athletic left without scoring a rivalry duel already decaffeinated from the previous days. The result reproduces what happened on the grass. No one deserved more than it took, because football was flat and the opportunities, very scarce. The Real did not fulfill its goal of taking the three points to continue dreaming of Europe, and the rojiblancos also stayed halfway, thinking about the improbable miracle against United in the Tour of Semifinals of the Europa League.

Basque derbies suggest high tension, sharp claws and electricity in the environment. They speak of rivalry and almost always equality, regardless of the situation of one team or another, although there are times that someone leaves the script and for the joy of theirs and despite their rivals, it bursts the game. But sometimes mutual respect prevails, sometimes, as if the actors did not want to harm and all actions were assaults on pressing catchwhere despite the cortazos nobody is injured because it is a representation.

Between the Royal Society and Athletic something similar happened in the first part. After the initial ardor, especially the Donostiarras, who went out to bite, the flame immediately went out. The first fleeting flashes had no continuation.

As if they were attacked by spring asthenia, the soccer players of the two teams run without finding meaning to their game. In midfield, Zubimendi and Galarreta were neutralized, and meanwhile, by the bands, Take Kubo and Williams did not seem to have their best night. More understandable Athletic’s performance, decimated in its alignment for the reserves taken in an appointment between two European commitments, the real one, which hurries its options to enter Europe, did not find a way to attack a very well -ordered rival. The mistakes, impressions and calculation errors happened, although never in defense, which are usually the funniest for the neutral viewer or the team that receives the gift, of course. There was nothing like that, only tedio and just arriving in the areas. In fact, the first shot that the goal was looking for, but did not find it even close, arrived in the 39th minute, in a counterattack that Sergio Gómez culminated. It was the first sense of danger generated by the real one, immediately after an arrival of Athletic that remirously neutralized with the fists.

The beginning of the second part was encouraged. The two teams with more brio played and began to approach the opposite area … First it was the Real who rehearsed on the rojiblanca goal, with a shot of Kubo that Unai Simon, without much effort, diverted to corner; Shortly after, a Berenguer launch stopped Remiro without difficulty. The teams were in everything, although a galarreta error in a pass became a realistic occasion that no one among the Donostiarras strikers knew how to specify.

The best occasion of the temperate Night Donostiarra arrived in a stopped ball, when a corner kick well touched by Sergio Gómez finished off Brais Méndez for Unai Simon to make the best stop of the game. Then the changes arrived. Valverde put in the field to Jauregizar to replace an exhausted Ruiz de Galarreta, and Maroan, in an attempt to fish in the heaters near the area.

However, although good intentions lasted more than in the first part, immediately the game returned to the idle with which the first had played, and also with the forces much fairer, so the inaccuracies happened.

The Real wanted to push more in the final minutes, in an attack of pride, more than talent, and squeezed what he could, although Athletic defended himself to avoid major evils. He tried to calm the exalted spirits of the Donostiarras. He did it with solvency, without allowing joys to the local strikers, who, like almost all the fans of both teams, ended up frustrated after a bad game, although for Athletic it will always have scratched a point in the field of the eternal rival.