Copa del Rey | The Cup final is Real

The Arconada, Zamora and López Ufarte of the last Cup of 87, the Bakero, Begiristain and López Rekarte of the final lost in 88, the thousands and thousands of children who were told one day that the Real was great and could never check it out, they reincarnated in Oyarzabal, Odegaard, Januzaj and Willian Jose to take the Real Sociedad to a Cup final 32 years later, a long journey through the desert that finally came to fruition. Several generations have had to pass decades and decades of real hardships to see his team fight for a title again. The support of an injured hobby has not corresponded all this time with the performance of a Real who felt giant again in Anduva, as big as the one that won titles in the 80s, as big as the Real one that their fans imagined and so few times could they enjoy. The mix between youth players and foreigners has led the club to the final of La Cartuja, a prize for dark club and training work around a clear idea of ​​play.

La Real went to Anduva with the war monkey. Imanol opted for Willian José instead of Isak on end to try to hold back balls and dominate the area, although the Mirandés did not grant that option. The local team played with the aggressiveness always in the pressure, but he lacked the self-confidence of this whole Cup. He didn't need the Real one more than Being serious in defense to await your opportunity. He played with intelligence the Imanol team, much less drowned in the start of the ball than in the first leg in Anoeta. If you had to throw long, it did.

The Mirandés wanted to be uncomfortable and moved Matheus as usual among the rival centrals, although on this occasion the Txuri-Urdines defenders were well learned. The meeting was minimized to banal matters, although at the same time key. For example the Rise up the right side of Zaldúa to the edge of the break on the right side. Its center hit Malsa's arm and was a fundamental penalty for the Real, among other things because the launch was Oyarzabal. In that moment when one's legs tremble, his heart is paralyzed. He already scored in the first leg with a lot of cold blood and repeated in Anduva with an improper tranquility of a football player his age. He is not a captain of the Real. He is a player called to mark an era.

The goal reassured Real and awarded him a mattress of two goals. The Mirandés noted then that the work of this Cup had been important enough to conform to the semifinals. This time there was no trace of the sharp team and with clear ideas able to reach out to the group of greater category. Just a Matheus approach put fear into the body of the txuri-urdin team, Very serious in the task of canceling the risks.

Imanol moved the bench to close a match that belonged to him from start to finish and that he returned to place the Real among the greats of our country, those who fight for titles, those who look straight ahead to the Cups as the Txuri-Urdin box will do on April 18 at the end of La Cartuja. It has been three decades to return to the Real among the best. Enough time for weeping and regrets, for criticism and disappointment. Time, in general, to strengthen a feeling for the Real that now makes sense, located in the final and with options to win it. It is faith in the Txuri-Urdines colors, the same ones that one day, in the cold Anduva, reached a place in the Copa final for the joy of their fans. Congratulations.