Imanol
Sheriff and the Real have been put in overwhelming mode. The txuri urdin team, LaLiga's solo leader when almost a quarter of the competition has already been played, has won eight of its last ten official matches, and six of the last seven in the League, the last five in a row, second best mark in the history of the club.
Since the blue and white squad drew against Madrid, almost two months ago, they have practically only known victory. Valencia (0-1) and Napoli (0-1), in two games with a very similar story, clearly realistic dominance, are the only rivals who have found the antidote for this victorious machine in which they have become Sheriff to your team. Since the end of September, Elche, Getafe, Betis, Rijeka, Huesca, Celta, AZ Alkmaar and Granada have been biting the dust, surrendered to the power of the team that commands the First Division.
The compendium of statistics in which the Real is in charge is endless. From the fundamental, the classification, to the Pichichi (Oyarzabal) or the Zamora (Remiro), passing through other groups such as goals in favor or shots on goal, the realistic team has become an almost perfect machine for playing soccer against which their opponents have been able to do little.
Some historical averages
La Real rides at an average per game of 2.2 points (83 at the end of the League), nine shots (more than five between the three suits), six corners taken, 2.2 goals in favor and 0.4 against. In the last five days he has even stepped on the accelerator with an average of three points and 3.2 goals in favor. Spectacular data that, above all, radiographs the enormous ambition that has inoculated this team Imanol, a winning coach.
And it is that the game won against Granada was the 45th victory of Imanol as coach of Real in 89 matches directed. This means that the Orio coach has exceeded 50% of victories in his journey on the Blue and White bench. An unpublished data. The Gipuzkoan is the coach with the best average number of games won in the club's history among the coaches who have directed Real on the most occasions, surpassing myths such as Benedict
Diaz (49.35%) or Alberto
Ormaetxea (48.45%), although these with 387 and 324 directed parties respectively.
The success against the Nazaris came the day when Alguacil equaled the 89 matches of Raynald
Denoueix, the last coach with whom Real dreamed of winning the League in 2003. At this stage of the championship 18 years ago, the Txuri Urdin had 21 points after having added 6 victories and three draws in the first nine games. The Real of Imanol They only have one point less, since they lost to Valencia. That team of Kovacevic, Nihat or Karpin had scored one more goal (21) but Westerveld had conceded nine more (13) than Remiro (4).
It is too early to predict if the Real is in a position to reissue that feat, but it is undoubted that its current leadership is undeniable. And that, without going into assessing how far he can go, this overwhelming start of the League is allowing him to open a gap in the classification that consolidates him as one of the undisputed applicants to be in the noble positions of the table all season.