La Real maintains the solo lead in Primera after scoring a point against Villarreal. The threatening visit of the yellow team, third in the table, ended with a worked draw, in a frenetic duel in the first half and closed in the second. Gerard
Brown, penalty, and Oyarzabal, infallible from 11 meters, signed the final 1-1 before the break.
With a new lineup and with certain doses of risk (Aritz as lateral and Zubeldia in the middle, Aihen instead of Monreal, Guevara in the engine room, Robert
Lopez in the position of Silva, Barrenetxea in the right lane and Willian
Joseph en punta) the Real had to face the unknown. Swimming against the current practically outgoing. The game turned uphill after 6 minutes. A throw-in in an isolated disguise became 0-1. Bacca stopped heel to Mario
Gaspar whose center, in a semifallo, walked meekly through the area until reaching Esupiñán. Aritz, who came from struggling with Pedraza, measured badly and committed a penalty. Gerard I do not forgive.
The txuri urdin were entering a new scenario, that of being seen from behind from almost the opening whistle. His reaction capacity was subjected to examination before the third classified in the League. After a minute's hesitation, the Imanol they replied. With more conviction than game, they stepped on the accelerator of the game activating a brave, intense pressure, which began to bear fruit.
Fruitful pressure
The royalists were advancing lines to press the exit of the yellow ball. At 15 minutes, Barrenetxea forced a loss of Stupiñán for what Oyarzabal I tried Asenjo for the first time. Then it was his own Barrenetxea the one who kicked, hitting a defender. Although the main route that Real opened to reach the top in the rival area was the left wing. Aihen Y Oyarzabal constantly focused, finding spaces and demanding from Mario
Gaspar and the Villarreal centrals.
Thus, a long throw-in by the Navarrese side ended, after two rejections, at the far post. Like one in a tango, Barrenetxea turned on Stupiñán and finished point-blank. Asenjo deflected with a stop.
La Real began to accumulate arrivals. After half an hour, after a corner, Aihen hung a far ball at the far post that he won You
Normand. Merino he hit him acrobatic, semi-Chilean, and the ball fell to Aritz, which finished off. Gil Manzano saw a corner. An isolated error in appearance that led to 1-1.
Robert
Lopez kicked the corner kick and Pau
towers hit You
Normand in the face. Clear penalty. The moment of Oyarzabal. Villarreal players circled the point, Asenjo he got inside the goal, then jumped all the way down the line. It didn't matter. Jump and inside. 14 of 14. Tie at 1.
The revolutions went down until they reached the break, in which Imanol introduced to Zaldua by Aritz, with yellow and physically punished. If the first half was twisted with a goal against, the second was about to do it with a setback of another draft at 10 minutes. In an outing of fists, Remiro He tapped his elbow on Merino's brow. The Navarrese, defying logic, was able to rejoin after the gap was closed with staples.
Second part closed
Willian
Joseph had the clearest of a second part in which the script completely changed and the rhythm fell. In a great driving of Oyarzabal, the Brazilian, very participative in the collective game, hunted the loose leather in the area. Shot with low angle and Asenjo rejected a corner.
The duel entered a temperate phase and arrivals dropped by dropper. Imanol tried to bring freshness: of ideas, with Zubimendi, and legs and ambition, with For your. Emery built a more symmetrical drawing. The spaces per band began to be scarce.
Imanol appealed to the hat of Januzaj in the last ten minutes. In front, a rival who was well positioned but who from midfield forward the Real managed to deactivate. A great combination on the right between Zubimendi Y Zaldua, with heels to Robert
Lopez, died in the yellow area. Two distant shots of Equal Y Chukwueze in the discount were the threats of Villarreal. The final whistle decreed the draw. La Real is still in command.
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