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The Cup is cool as a single match. That adrenaline of all or nothing activates the teams and generates vibrant duels where there is no room for speculation. But he dies in the semifinals when he gives a second chance. Or at least that happened between Mallorca and Real Sociedad, who left their duties pending to be resolved at the Reale Arena.
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Son Moix dressed as hell and fear finally prevailed. The entire stadium was convinced that not losing was already winning. The entire island had internalized
Aguirre
's message
and conceived the duel as a long 180-minute match. And that's what was played.
Mallorca was not going to give up damaging Real, but above all it was going to protect itself, a lot. In the first half it became sticky, uncomfortable, a block of cement that left the San Sebastian team with two shots on goal, one crossed and timid from
Brais
at the start and an attempted header from
Sadiq
to
Barrenetxea
's center almost on the edge of half-time. . There was no reason to despair, but Imanol was heading on the wing. The
tempo
was set by Mallorca and neither Barrenetxea nor
Kubo
, who had just arrived from the Asia Cup and even took a shot from
Copete
, were executing the planned plan. And so there was no way to tear down the wall.
Skirmishes and thickets
Without losing even a second of order, Mallorca gradually began to unleash its demons. Abdón appeared first at the penalty spot to hook a tense center from
Gio González
. Quick counters from the wingers, because
Jaume Costa
also found
Dani Rodríguez
in the area so that he crashed his shot into
Le Normand
. But they had to control the momentum, because Real understood the challenge and began to find
Sadiq
from the shores .
They were simple skirmishes in a first half so flat that the first corner came in the 43rd minute. They became more alert in the second half, where both teams sought to take a step forward and the game opened up.
La Real needed to hold on to the ball, kneading the game to find the crack of a Mallorca that was not bothered. It is her reality and she survives in it. What's more, he found the inaccuracy of the Basques and it was not difficult for him to bite, recover to accelerate on the wings and look for
Abdón
, who scored the best chance with a shot close to
Remiro
's post .
Show the fang
The answer didn't take long and Sadiq gave him three errors that he will dream about. He had the game in his shots. Barrenetxea put it first again and, with
Greif
defeated, he pushed with his stomach without finding a goal. Then he couldn't catch the goalkeeper's rejection of Brais's hit and the third was Kubo who gave him a ball in the heart of the area and left it behind just enough to avoid shooting the Slovakian goalkeeper.
There were three rings that made La Real understand that she had to show her fang. It was time and Aguirre, who understood it, protected himself with fresh legs and entrusted himself to
Muriqi
. He seemed more capable of holding on to what he had won, which was a live tie, than of taking the lead. La Real locked them up, but it wasn't enough to knock them down. Blank bullets that leave the final open at 90 minutes.