Januzaj places Real Sociedad third

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Six days after what may be his most important game in three decades, the Real Sociedad took forward a meeting that comes with a double prize, since his victory in the Reale Arena against Valladolid elevates him to third place in the table. And although it is true that his direct rivals have not yet played, it is no less that the San Sebastian team has pending his duel against Eibar, postponed in his day by the collapse of the Zaldibar landfill. [Narration and statistics: 1-0]

It was not the brightest meeting of those of Imanol Aguacil , who lined up all of his headlines despite the fact that on Wednesday, the pass to the final of the Copa del Rey is played in Anduva, but his performance earned them three other points. Valladolid, which had already won last season at this stadium, sold its skin very expensive and reaffirmed, despite the defeat, why it takes the entire course out of the relegation places. Few teams as supportive in this League as Sergio González trains.

The duel left more positive readings for the locals. The goal of the triumph was Januzaj , whose performance in recent days increases the chances of success of the Royal in the remainder of the season. After flirting with his departure in the winter market, Alguacil has made the Belgian reactivate and become a decisive player for the Real. One more argument for a team that takes positions to fight for the Champions League in the last third of the competition.

It was hard for Real to interpret the system with which Sergio González sought to surprise him. The technician resigned to his usual extremes to arrange a kind of 4-3-1-2, in which Sandro , a former Txuriurdin , acted as a buoy to launch Guardiola and Ünal , who were searching hard for the space between the centrals and the lateral. Uncomfortable, the San Sebastian team was unable to impose their game during a first half with more expectations than realities.

Isak and Odegaard, covered

Januzaj seemed the most intoned of those of Imanol Alguacil, generating imbalances on the right wing, but both Odegaard and Isak went unnoticed. The Valladolid, far from taking refuge in its field, tried to hinder the exit of the ball of the defense of the Real, with variable intensity, soon to attack quickly. Both, however, went to the locker room without much to show off: two shots per team, neither of them on goal. Two strokes of Januzaj and Ünal that ended in a corner were the most drinkable, to say the least, of that first half.

Looking ahead to the second, the Real affected the connection between its sides and its ends to look for superiorities by band that developed the Pucelana defense. They went to the Sheriff's and found the prize at the time of the game. A leaked pass from Odegaard to Oyarzabal disorganized the defense of Valladolid and after a triangulation with Zaldua on the right, the captain focused on the small area for Januzaj to resolve head-on.

Sergio was forced to look for solutions from the bench and dismantled his initial scheme to move on to play with three defense and with Sandro practically as a midfielder. The game opened much more and both teams had options to score. The last one was for Sandro, the best of the visitors, who came across a great departure from Remiro on the last play of the match. Nothing was going to stop Real from winning their fifth consecutive game, the eighth in the last nine.

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