The monumental streets of Naples, a conjunction of urban art and majesty; the canals and markets of Alkmaar, with the purest essence of the Netherlands; and the port aroma of Rijeka will witness the return of the Royal to Europe. The realistic team will travel to Italy, Holland and Croatia in the first steps of an adventure that begins alone, without its people, and that it aspires to extend until May 26 in Gdansk. History awaits the Txuri Urdin on the shores of the Baltic.
Away from Poland, in Nyon, the Real met yesterday the three teams with which they will fight for two places in the round of 32. Cyrus
Ferrara, prototypical defender of Juventus at the end of the last century – Knight and Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, there is nothing – was in charge of administering fortune to the 48 participants. Scarce in the case of Imanol
Sheriff, who were included in Group F together with Napoli, curiously the club in which Ferrara, AZ Alkmaar and Rijeka took his first steps as a defender.
La Real went to the draw within the second pot and will have to face one of the most powerful rivals in pots 1 and 3, as well as a Rijeka that has beaten the Ukrainian Kolos Kovalivka and Copenhagen, with an absolutely bizarre goal, to sneak in in the last hype. The group could have been more friendly, especially due to the presence of the Dutch team, but on paper the San Sebastian team will start with the favorite poster to go, together with Naples, to the direct knockout phase.
It is the first objective but it will be necessary to deploy the football that has led Imanol
Sheriff up to this point. The music will begin to play on October 22 in Croatia and, since then, there will be no truce. The dances before Naples, which Anoeta will visit on the 29th, and AZ are attractive. Italians, led by Gennaro
Gatusso, lifted the Cup last season and lead Serie A after two days. His offensive arsenal, with names like Mertens, Distinguished or Hirving
Lush, as well as his depth in the game augurs two intense encounters.
The pandemic is lyrical to the visit to the mythical San Paolo on December 10. The stadium bleachers that reigned in Diego
Armando
Maradona they would have welcomed thousands of Txuri Urdin fans who will not be able to accompany their team to the old continent. UEFA opened the door for the public to enter the fields, with a limit of 30% of the capacity and always subject to the opinion of the local authorities, but without visiting fans. It will be the most notable absence of the Royal in his European trip.
The AZ Alkmaar appears as the third in contention and also, as a threat to be taken into account. The set led by Arne
Slot The season started falling in the Champions League qualifier against Dinamo Kiev and with two draws. Lambskin for a team that, when the pandemic put an end to the last Dutch Eredivisie, was second with the same points as Ajax.
The Rijeka assumes the Cinderella poster, of a contender without pressure in search of the bell. Tough rivals and short trips, (less than 8,000 kilometers in total) Transalpinos, Dutch and Balkans will face the Txuri Urdin in six days in which the Real aspires to keep the flame alive. History, in the form of an ending, awaits in Poland