La Real leaves Europe wondering if it could do more. Since debut in Rijeka, continental travel has been a constant uphill climb. Each game, a fight fought for life or death, without being able to give up an inch so as not to end up falling apart. What ended up happening in Turin, before him United, when the opponent's entity was raised practically to the highest level. That incomplete feeling that has accompanied the team throughout its European journey was magnified yesterday in Old Trafford. There must be nothing much worse than, the day he arrivedace to one of the temples of world football, having to play without spectators and evicted as a result of a ruthless scoreboard in the first leg.
When the lights went out in the ‘Theater of Dreams’ someone had to yell ‘Gero arte!’. Fate is unlikely to match again Real already Manchester short term in a continental competition but the 6,000 of 2013 thought the same when, without time to sit in their seat, Iñigo
Martinez He had already scored 1-0 at his own door Claudio
Bravo. It was not the same, but something similar must have felt yesterday when Oyarzabal missed the penalty. A goal with little weight in the destiny of the tie but that at least would have allowed Real to enjoy the feeling of winning a match of the Europe
League. And before him United in Old
Trafford. Only in the final minutes in front of the AZ has experienced it in this edition of the Europe
League. Always rowing in the opposite direction.
When the plane takes off today from the imposing airport of Manchester, someone will yell “We'll be back!” To England or any other destination on the old continent. Because the feeling of an unfinished work is obvious. La Real has been very far from Manchester
United in the tie and suffered a lot, without going any further, before that Naples which now seems vulgar in the hands of the grenade. Therefore, the doubt about whether something else could be done is reasonable. That he had football for something else.
You won't have to wait too long to pay it off. La Real have the potential and resources to qualify for Europe again this season and their starting point with 14 games to go is unbeatable. The impact of being eliminated is great, because it hurts, but the great growth of this Real is measured in its ability to absorb blows of this nature to continue competing at the highest level, convinced that, sooner rather than later, it will return to Old Trafford.