Only the reds prevented Real from winning after going ahead

Topping the scoreboard is always relevant in football. This allows you to play with an advantage and forces the opponent to take risks, sometimes more than necessary, to create spaces to sentence the match. The latter is something that the txuri urdin group suffers from: sentencing. And sometimes it has problems.

This is a standard that, in general, is not commonly used by the Royal Society of imanol, repeating almost every week that they had the chance to score more goals, but they weren’t right and they should have done it to finish the match. He says this with success, streaks and defeats. He is arguably one of the must-do’s of this historic team.

Celta and Valencia are not giving up

However, when Real score the first goal of the game, they usually end up winning, whether they score more goals or not. This is a fact that many overlook, but it is true. As reported by the COPE program statistician Game time Peter Martin, the San Sebastian team beat its opponent 13 times when it opened the can. Those matches are as follows: 0-1 in Cádiz, 0-1 in Elche, 2-1 against Espanyol, 3-5 in Girona, 1-0 against Villarreal, 1-2 in Vigo, 1- 0 against Mallorca, 1-2 in Pizjuán, 2-0 against Osasuna, 0-2 in Almería, 3-1 against Athletic, 0-2 in Vallecas and 2-3 in Cornellà.

For his part, he failed only once, against Valencia at Anoeta (1-1). Until this past Saturday against Celta (1-1).

These two meetings have a clear similarity that influenced the game: a red card.

In the case of the match against Valencia, Real suffered the expulsion of Aritz, very early, and cannot protect 1-0. But this weekend it was the rival who was left with 10. It seems that Real has not fully assimilated the change of context with superiority or inferiority, and they prefer to play eleven against eleven.