La Real, an explosion of football

Game and results. The dreamed binomial. La Real is doing it until they can become a record team. The results say that it is the best team in the League, whose first position it occupies and in which it is by far the team with the most goals in favor, but it is also a delight even for the neutral fan who watches it on television. Those of Imanol They want to close tomorrow in Anoeta with another victory a cycle of seven games that will border on the glorious in case of defeating Granada, with the only mole of the defeat against Naples (0-1), of bad memory only because of the scoreboard, since Real played great football. In these last six games of the series, the five wins have allowed the Txuri Urdin to conquer the first place in the League and that of their group in the Europa League, although in this case they are equaled by six points with AZ Alkmaar and Napoli. .

Before the league break in November, Granada arrives, another revelation team that is also at the top in the League and the Europa League, but will come with all the precautions examining the service sheet that Real presents in its last four League games: four wins, 14 goals for and two against. The Gipuzkoan squad will seek to match its second best record of triumphs in history tomorrow, which is six. The last two times he had five victories were in the 2013/2014 and 2003/04 seasons, the two after the best of the century in the txuri urdin team.

A record from seven years ago

Seven years ago, the Real de Jagoba skyrocketed in the table after successively defeating Celta (4-3), Espanyol (1-2), Betis (5-1), Granada (1-3) and Athletic (2-0) between the rounds 14 and 18. 17 years ago, they beat Málaga (1-2), Madrid (1-0), Espanyol (3-1), Celta (2-5) and Racing (1-0) on consecutive days. ).

On two occasions in 111 years of history he has raised the number of consecutive wins to six, in the 1987/88 campaign (between matchdays 12 and 17), with Toshack, and in the 1930/31 season, between matchdays 3 and 8. That's the challenge. To match it, the Txuri Urdin will have to defeat Granada at home and Cádiz away. To overcome it, the streak would have to be extended to the match against Villarreal on November 29.

They compare him with United

La Real enter tomorrow's game with the confidence of having won six of their last seven games and of having lost two of the last 14. The dimension of their game is specified, for example, in the questions that the Dutch journalists asked Arne
Slot, AZ Alkmaar coach at Thursday's press conference: “Do you think this team is better than United?” asked an insider. “Sometimes I had the impression that they were playing with 12, because of the speed and precision with which they moved the ball,” snapped another. “What can you learn from such a good opponent for the remainder of the season?” Was another question.

ImanolHowever, he will continue to tighten his own. He threw them flowers after losing to Naples, although he was critical after the match against Celta and also after the game against AZ Alkmaar, in which he understands that his team missed too many chances. The coach does not forget what it cost Real to score in the first days, a bit in the first two games, and just before the third he launched a taunt at his team: he told them that they didn't even put it in training, that they lacked forcefulness. And since then he has scored 17 goals in six games, almost three per game. Soccer blast.

It seemed a lie when on August 18 Real announced the signing of David Silva to replace Odegaard. A fake. Almost three months later, you still have to rub your eyes to see that a player of that size plays for Real and not for any other major in Europe. The few doubts that could originate his physical condition or his commitment have been completely dissipated with the passage of the matches: since he overcame COVID-19 he is the only footballer who has always been a starter with Le Normand, and his physical records speak for him: besides inventing, defends, runs and fights.

In recent matches, Imanol has dosed Monreal, Oyarzabal, Portu, Merino and even Remiro, but Silva has not been touched. He has played the 270 minutes of the Europa League.

At this level, and driven by the good work of all his colleagues and the style that benefits him, Silva is offering the best of his repertoire. Both Celta and AZ Alkmaar destroyed by looming undetectable behind the pivots and from there fed the attackers with accurate shipments. A good part of the chances and Real's goal against the Dutch were born from his shipments.

Silva is one of the great cracks of the League. And he plays in the leading team, Real.