Imanol Alguacil gets a hundred this Thursday in San Mamés. The Oriotarra coach will direct his 100th match as coach of the Real Sociedad first team in the Basque derby against Athletic Bilbao with which this 2020 will close. In this way, it will become part of the select club of the ten coaches with the most games on the bench of the txuri-urdin team, surpassing the German Bernd Krauss, with whom he is equaled with 99 games and with which the Donostiarras reached a remembered and Meritorious third place in the league in 1998.
What is clear is that, despite the bad streak in which the realistic team is immersed, Imanol will begin to enter the history of Real Sociedad in San Mamés. Orio's coach does not want to reach the end of the year with ten games in a row without winning, thus maintaining his spectacular average at the head of the bench of the Donostia first team. Why has the second best victory average of a Real coach in the first hundred games as a technician. With Imanol, the royalists have won 45 games in 99 games, almost one win every two games, 28 draws and 26 losses.
This is more than relevant data, because They are only surpassed by Alberto Ormaetxea himself, the coach with whom Real Sociedad won both of his league titles, something that are major words. With Imanol, Real has returned to a Copa del Rey final, precisely the one who has to play in April postponed last season, and achieved the previous season a qualification in extremis to play the group stage of the Europa League. The current one is the second stage of Imanol Alguacil on the Real bench, because first he had to take the team to make up for the dismissal of Eusebio, and then returned to the Sanse.
But after a new cessation, this time from Asier Garitano, Oriotarra returned to assume command of the first team to earn a place now permanently as head of the first team. His good numbers have served him to win a new renewal until 2023, since his current contract ended at the end of this campaign. An extension that he hopes to celebrate by winning the Basque derby, for which You will not be able to count on Illarramendi, Zaldua, Januzaj, Moyá and Sangalli.