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When everything seemed lost for
Real Sociedad
, absorbed by a feeling of helplessness that had accompanied him during a long hour of play,
Willian José
hit the ball with all the force he could and saved the European life of the San Sebastian team.
This Real, marvelous by abrasion in the first bars of the course, this time clung to the agony to avoid the precipice of premature elimination in the Europa League.
That goal from the Brazilian forward was not even necessary, since AZ Alkmaar lost in the discount against the eliminated Rijeka, but it served to show again that this Real not only knows how to play football very well, but has also learned to suffer with success when given wrong.
The consequence is that the
txuriurdin
ball
will be in the draw next Monday in the second group hype (Granada's ball will also be there after not going 0-0 against PAOK) and that the continental adventure continues for the seven teams Spaniards who started it a couple of months ago.
European plenary session in which the Real took the last ticket with that tie against Naples in the first match that San Paolo hosted as Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.
And
without Oyarzabal or Silva
, which multiplies the merit of the Basque team, who arrived in time to save the mistakes made in previous days.
To alleviate the loss of the world champion, Alguacil renounced alternatives that he would have tried in previous games, such as those of Januzaj and Roberto López, to arrange a
trivote in which Merino was the one who dropped the most
to occupy the position of playmaker.
That arrangement, with Guevara and Zubimendi in intermediate spaces, gave Real a great control of the pitch, forcing Napoli to continuously chase the ball.
During the first half hour, the Italian team came to have a hard time due to their inability to have the initiative.
His suffering was made clear on two very clear occasions by the Donostiarras, a blow from Willian José that
Ospina
saved
and a shot to an empty goal that
Portu
inexplicably wasted.
Soon the Murcia winger was going to regret having sent that ball down the baseline.
Because after a warning from
Bakayoko
,
Zielinski's
goal came
.
Both times they started from the only two corners that Naples threw in the entire first half.
In which it ended 1-0,
Le Normand
cleared the dispatch to the area and
Zielinski
picked up the rebound on the edge to punish Real with an accurate semi-volley.
In tow
The goal not only left the Donostiarras momentarily out of the Europa League, it also produced a narcotic effect.
He went from playing well to playing badly, from arriving in danger to becoming entangled in futile possessions that never came to fruition.
If Napoli, who needed not to lose to qualify, already seemed to settle for a draw, with 1-0 they practically stopped attacking.
This is how the long hour of the game that remained until the end progressed.
At the beginning of the second half, a goal from Rijeka gave air to Real, but five minutes later AZ tied, again forcing Alguacil's men to reap at least one draw at the Maradona Stadium.
Looking to the end, they seemed to lose faith and embrace resignation.
Naples did not give him a glimmer of hope.
Little or nothing could be done.
But then, with everything absolutely lost and already in the discount, the Real found that gap that it needed.
Aihen crossed
to the pot, the ball hit
Demme
in the back and Willian José shot Ospina point-blank from the penalty spot, driving Real into an absolute delirium.
There were three minutes left of games that were not even played.
Napoli took out and began to pass without passing the center of the field.
La Real did not press, just watched.
It was worth the draw for both of them and it was not worth hiding.
The subsequent goal by Rijeka, celebrated by the 'txuriurdin' bench, simply served to confirm what Willian José had already decided, that Real Sociedad will be in the next round of the Europa League.
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