La Real is at that point where, when he arrives at the locker room, a handful of questions crowd his head to which he cannot find an answer. It is not explained how yesterday in Valencia, like Wednesday in Barcelona, the match ended in defeat. But it is that only a few days ago he wondered how he could not beat the Alaves or why did he equalize in front of Rijeka. The only certain answer is that Real have not won for more than a month and that their last eight games have ended in a tie or defeat.
The only diagnosis that does not admit discussion is that the Real has lost the way to victory. And in football almost nothing happens by chance. Everything has its explanation. The Royal method has lost its effectiveness. A path that between September and November came blindfolded, has now become a winding route, full of obstacles, which the Txuri Urdin squad feels unable to overcome to embrace victory.
The problem with the Real is that the competitive maelstrom that barely leaves him a few hours to compose himself before starting to think about the next game does not allow him to get off that roller coaster of emotions that, at the moment, has its wagons in clear fall free without the Real managing to stop the collapse. To three consecutive draws in the League after the last victory in Cadiz, the Real has added two consecutive defeats this week that suppose an unquestionable slap to the deposit of expectations that this same team had been able to generate.
Less precision in the game
La Real is at that point where his self-diagnosis leads him to deduce that, in reality, he is not doing anything very different from what he did when he won. And he is not without reason. But it does so with less precision in all sectors of the field. The personality of the team did not suffer yesterday despite playing with another 'eleven' of circumstances, completely remodeled and with a high presence of young people in it. He played in the rival field, with patience and dominating the ball especially in the first half and went ahead on the scoreboard. And when the scenario became more complicated, it was redone well creating up to four occasions that, under normal conditions, should have led to 1-2. A proud man avoided it Aitor
Fernandez or the VAR, by annulling by millimeters again a bit at Isak. But not only did he not win but he also ended up losing as Levante took advantage of a flagrant defensive imbalance of Gorosabel.
La Real believes that it continues to do the same as a month ago. And you may be right. But, for some time now, it does so with its top-level footballers out of competition, with many more kilometers on their legs and with a succession of matches that have caused an unquestionable, and to some extent justified, performance decline in a txuri urdin outfit that reaches the end of 2020 at its lowest point of the season.