The three points that Real achieved against Celta last Saturday in Anoeta are real platinum. They served him, on the one hand, to blow up a very negative dynamic in the League, which already spoke of six games without winning, and, on the other, to take advantage over all his direct rivals. Among the teams located in the upper half of the table, only the first two, Real Madrid and Sevilla, won, which were already unattainable for the rest. The rest, except the set of Imanol, points were left along the way. Thus the txuri urdin got two points from Betis, Atlético de Madrid, Barcelona, Rayo, Villarreal and Athletic and three points from Valencia.
In this way, those of Imanol They climbed from seventh to fifth place, with Champions League points, since they have the same 33 units as Atlético, which occupies fourth place. The victory takes on special significance when considering that the third, which is Betis, only has one more point. For its part, the seventh, Rayo at this time, only has two points behind, but already the eighth, Athletic, rides with five units less and one more game. Widening that gap is vital, although the fight for European positions is expected to be fierce, with many and very powerful applicants.
Two points more than the last two campaigns
The bump suffered since mid-November and especially in December seemed to blur the extraordinary first section of the season, but the figures presented by the Real are remarkably high. In fact, the 33 points that appear in his locker represent his second best mark since the promotion in 2010. Only in the 2016/17 campaign, with Eusebio Leading the bench, the txuri urdin squad had a better record of points after matchday 20 of the championship (35) .Imanol’s contemporary Real has two points more than in the two previous seasons, in which they qualified for the Europa League.
There is another season, 13/14, in which the Royalists also had 33 points at this point. In the end, with the crash suffered in the final ‘rush’ of the championship, he finished seventh with the need to play two previous heats to play the group stage of the Europa League. It was downed against Krasnodar and did not win the league. On 12/13, on the other hand, the trajectory was the opposite. He entered matchday 20 with 29 points, four less than now, but from then on he was a real winning machine. In fact, he only lost one more game. And finished fourth.
The classification on matchday 20 and the advantage acquired by Real:
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3rd Betis 34 points (+2)
4th Athletic 33 points (+2)
5th Real Sociedad 33 points
6th Barcelona 32 points (+2)
7th Ray 31 points (+2)
8th Villarreal 29 points (+2)
9th Athletic 28 points (+2)
10th Valencia 28 points (+3)
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La Real on matchday 20
Season 2021/22 33 points
2020/21 season 31 points
2019/20 season 31 points
2018/19 season 26 points
Season 2017/18 23 points
Season 2016/17 35 points
Season 2015/16 21 points
2014/15 season 22 points
2013/14 season 33 points
Season 2012/13 29 points
Season 2011/12 24 points
2010/11 season 25 points