Reinvent yourself … again

Sunday’s defeat at Villarreal did not leave anyone indifferent, that is a fact. That the Real of matchday 28 is not the Real of the first leg of the season is another fact. And that, without being a real disaster, what it currently offers does not seem to reach it, it is also a fact.

I remember how they reported imanol long ago there was no so-called “plan B”, when things started to go wrong, where it seemed that the rivals took the measure of Real Sociedad, and seemed to find an antidote to counter the Devastating effects for the realistic opponent of the group. There was talk of a Real who only knew how to play, and when they caught the trick, he didn’t know what to do. But here, the ‘gipsy from Orio’, as he calls himself, took a rabbit out of his hat, changed the formation of the team, chose a diamond arrangement in the midfield, perhaps the most important change , and all returned. on your site. The alluring Royal is back.

But no happiness lasts 1,000 years, and the days of wine and roses seem long gone. It’s hard for this team to win, and that’s the worst sentence that could happen to them. He’s not playing bad, but he’s not playing like he used to, and, besides, he’s barely won so far. So, the sky is covered again, the sun is setting and in the darkness the snipers reappear, always ready, whatever the occasion favors.

The bad thing about the match against Villarreal, in addition to the result, is that, in general, it is not a bad game – it seems worse to me, to cite an example, the day against Celta-, and, at times, I thought I saw flashes of the best Real of this season, always, yes, with a Silva determined to regain the magic of the group. But this isn’t the rounded team we all enjoyed just a few months ago. That we are installed in a kind of crisis whose dimensions are still unknown is also a fact, but the ability to recreate itself has been fully demonstrated imanolcan expect an answer…soon.

The cotton test

The calendar pages are constantly falling, and the opportunities to correct possible mistakes are decreasing. I don’t know if the defeat at Villarreal deserves to be recognized as “a mistake” properly speaking, but it means a setback, a step forward that was not taken, and, therefore, a step back.
And the next chance the calendar offers a realistic team is Saturday at Reale against Getafe, a team with a modest pedigree but a spectacular performance. those of Quique Flores they chained a series of positive results -in the last eight games they were only on their knees at Villarreal-, and they began to draw in the Metropolitan itself, while tormenting Barça in the fall of fat at the Camp Nou. All this data only serves to alert the uninformed who, driven by the lack of papers from the Madrid team, may be tempted to underestimate the azulones, in a clear fish of pride that usually pays dearly.
It is, without a doubt, a real test level, to assess the level of recovery of imanol. With almost no room for possible mistakes.

The Alchemist’s Call

Perhaps one of the most used words in all txuri urdin debates in recent times is rhombus; “the rhombus does not work as before”, we hear again and again. And it will certainly happen in one of the best moments of the ‘Arguineguín alchemist’, who once again showed at Villarreal that he is up for the job. His performance was a kind of call to order. “Don’t break up”, what would he say? lazarte.

second end

The road to the end of the championship was a constant revalidation for Real, day by day. Anything you can’t get is land the enemy can ‘eat’ you. At Villarreal the result was zero, nothing, so against Getafe only three points were worth it. There is no more margin, from now to the end of the year, everything is final… without exception.