Espanyol 1-Real Sociedad 0 | Yangel Herrera and ‘demon’ Mateu

Won Espanyol, which extends its love affair with the RCDE Stadium, and that he possibly had to pinch himself to believe it. AND Real Sociedad lost, which adds two defeats after having chained 17 games unbeaten. And that turns his anger on Mateu Lahoz, who monopolized more spotlights than the first both parakeet by Yangel Herrera or the stops by Diego López and Remiro, by canceling – surely at the wrong time – a goal by Isak even with 0-0 on the scoreboard.

Without Mikel Merino, David Silva or Elustondo. Isak, from the start, on the bench. Sensitive casualties that the ‘txuri-urdin’ did not seem to accuse, in a start of total control that could culminate in the 17th minute with a shot from the edge of Le Normand that Diego López, using his repertoire of miraculous saves, diverted to corner.

Little by little the parrots began to wake up, containing the bad clearances of the first section and attacking. First, by Pedrosa’s band. And later, taking advantage of the irruptions of an increasingly intoned Puado, who had the goal in two outbursts. From within the area, he forced Remiro to show off. From further away, and after a vertiginous individual action, he crashed the ball into the post. Espanyol did not control the times of the match, despite its ‘boudoir’ midfield –and with Keidi Bare as the only novelty, due to the injured David López– but, when it appeared, it was disturbing.

A carbon copy of the beginning was the resumption, with a real dominator and overturned, but now capable of widening the field as well. From the bands came the occasions of Portu, almost without angle, a ball on the goal line that Sorloth didn’t hook by millimeters and a testarazo de Zubimendi that Diego stopped. But above all, a centro-chut de Januzaj from the right it crashed into the stick.

Until in ’66 the show by Mateu Lahoz, on whose body the ball touched in a Real Sociedad attack that followed, the referee did not stop the play, and ended in a goal from the newly incorporated Isak. It was then that Mateu decided to cancel the target and the action, not without several minutes of incomprehensible suspense.

Espanyol replied with a shot by Nico Melamed about Remiro’s goal. And it definitely froze the blood of the ‘txuri-urdin’ with the move of Raúl de Tomás that Remiro rejected so that, arriving from behind, Yangel Herrera penetrated the visiting goal. A goal that could be sentenced immediately after, with a deep pass from RdT to Wu Lei, who could not choose worse control only before Remiro.

He tried to follow his own the Real, which vHe forgot to overturn his greatest danger in Januzaj, both in a free kick that Diego López deflected and in a deep pass in which had the tie Oyarzabal. The realistic forward, who ended up lying on the grass, was the spitting image of the ‘txuri-urdin’ feeling at the end of the match.