Imanol, in the footsteps of Raynald Denoueix

La Real will resume the competition next Sunday 21 against Valencia in Anoeta (9:00 p.m.) and four days later they will face their first final in the current edition of the Europa League in Monaco. Two games with undoubted content of their own in the future of the txuri urdin team that, in addition, if they do not lose them, will equal the 18 consecutive games without defeat that the runner-up team chained from 03/02, the best streak of the 21st century.

The Real of Imanol follow the path of the best generations in the club’s history. Both in terms of the mathematical balance at the start of the campaign and the streak of games without losing. A victory against Valencia would lead him to sign the second best start in the club’s history and, incidentally, extend the streak of games without losing to 17, only one of the 18 that the Westerveld, Karpin, Of Pedro, Nihat and company were without knowing the defeat between September 2002 and February 2003.

Three months without defeats

That Real, in fact, did not lose any of the 19 games of the first round, but between the first day of the League and the second in September a cup tie was played at La Romareda in which Zaragoza, who was in Second, defeated to the squad of Raynald Denoueix (3-1) who would not know defeat again until the derby of the second round in San Mamés (3-0).

The streak of the Real de Imanol includes 12 league games and four Europa League games. He lost in the opening match at the Camp Nou and has not done it again. Nine wins and seven draws between August and November that have triggered euphoria among the Txuri Urdin fans.