With the League leader's cockade on their chest,
Real Sociedad
traveled to Croatia in the hope of a placid debut in the Europa League.
However, it took a world for the San Sebastian side, Spain's top scorer, to overcome Rijeka's iron defense, against a field in which, it was supposed, a 30% capacity was authorized, which seemed much more.
Imanol Alguacil's men
had to wait
until minute 93 for
Jon Bautista to
score the goal that gave him the three points.
The youth squad scored a goal that he needed to fuel his confidence.
He is back in the Donostia first team after a season on loan in Belgian football that did not help him to explode, scoring only three goals in 26 games.
He starts this season as third forward behind
Isak
and
Willian José
and this Thursday Alguacil recruited him to solve the ballot, something that Bautista did taking advantage of a pass from the death of
Mikel Merino
.
With all their headlines on the field, the Real always dominated the duel, enjoying two more occasions that crashed into the wood, but it took them too much to transform their numerous approaches to the area of the Croats into clear shots.
Rijeka also had their options on the counterattack, especially during the first half, but
Remro
was very successful the few times he had to intervene.
The defeat of Napoli, which Anoeta visits next week, against AZ Alkmaar in San Paolo reinforced the importance of the victory achieved yesterday by Real Sociedad on their trip to Croatia.
For the game next Thursday, the Royal trusts that there may be an audience in their field, but the evolution of the pandemic in Guipúzcoa does not exactly invite optimism.
El
Granada
, meanwhile, was released in the Europa League winning in one of the classic fields of the continent, the Philips Stadion.
The
PSV
took the
lead before the break with a goal from
Götze
, shortly after the referee annulled one of
Yangel Herrera
.
Those of
Diego Martinez
reacted after the break, completely dominating his opponent and going up
thanks to goals from
Jorge Molina
and
machis
.
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