La Real crashes against Rijeka and will play it in Naples

Real Sociedad crashes into Rijeka's defensive wall and will have to play their qualification in this group stage of the Europa League on the last day at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium against Naples. It depends on herself, but she has to beat a Neapolitan team in her field who will have a very emotional afternoon. Neither the context nor the scenario seem the most reassuring to risk their future in Europe. But at least the tie gives him a chance to depend on himself. Although it will have to be more successful in the face of the rival goal, because otherwise it will be more complicated. Against Rijeka it is unfair that he did not win, but he collided again and again with his defensive wall. And he was heavily penalized by Rijeka's only dangerous actions. It seems incredible that they scored two goals and he was only able to score two goals on countless occasions that the donostiarras did. Soccer was unfair and ungrateful this time to the team that put soccer on the field, but that's soccer. Bautista and Monreal neutralized the goals of Velkoski and Loncar in the second half. And now Real will have to travel to Naples to risk their continuity in this Europa League. How ungrateful football is sometimes. La Real is condemned to do a feat in Italy.

Real Sociedad immediately took over the ball as soon as the game started. But Rijeka, despite playing retreating in defense with five players, was far from willing to give up the attack, and put a lot of intensity in their first actions. It was a warning to sailors of what would happen later in the first part. Because Rijeka gave all possession to the Donostiarras, but came out with poison to attack, and was able to surprise in the first actions. Remiro was attentive, and the Real returned to take command of operations, but having the ball does not have to be synonymous with danger. And that happened to the realists. They had many arrivals in the vicinity of the Croatian area, but their actions lacked clarity.

And then the details began to turn against him. And the details mark matches. So it happened in this strange encounter. First with a penalty that was not even launched. The referee whistled a maximum penalty in favor of Real that did not seem like it, and then rectified. The hand was Isak's. And then when he found his way to the goal, when he generated clear chances of danger, then Nevistic appeared to become great and become an insurmountable wall. And Rijeka, who had come with ambition despite being eliminated, also knows how to run against it. In that scenario another detail against. Clear play of goal from Isak, Nevistic chops the ball, the Croats come out fast on the counterattack and force a corner in which Velkoski made it 0-1. It was the first auction between the three suits of Rijeka. Of course, you cannot ignore the error in the Real brand, too penalized with the only arrival of the rival.

The 0-1 complicated things a lot for Real. Because if with 0-0 Rijeka played totally retracted with five defenders and four midfielders ahead, with the score in favor, if the defensive framework was going to multiply. But the Real knew how to read its populated defense well. And after the break, Imanol hit the mark, because the San Sebastian team turned the game into a monologue and began to generate dozens of clear scoring chances. But between Nevistic and the Croatian defense the ball did not want to enter. Jon Bautista, Rijeka's hero, had to come out, the one who opened the can with a great action inside the area. Gorosabel's bitten center and shot at the turn of the Renteria striker. Golazo. It was only fair. La Real wanted the game, Rijeka by then no longer wanted to know anything about the ball. Only defended.

But then another detail arrived that crushed the realists. After three minutes, in another race against the Croats, Real almost out of nowhere conceded another corner and in the rebound Loncar shot to Remiro, dislodged because the ball touches a realistic defender on top. Not to believe. In the only arrival in the entire second half of Rijeka, he was again ahead on the scoreboard. It was time to continue rowing. Imanol made more changes. And the Royal continued to lock up Rijeka in their area. And again in another Gorosabel bitten center, the ball reached Monreal in the second and shot Nevistic. Everything was not going to stop the Croatian goalkeeper. Soccer couldn't be that unfair. Although poetic justice would have been a final comeback, because it was what the Real deserved, which went out of its way to get it. But his continuous shots found no goal. Draw that allows you to continue depending on yourself, but at the same time it generates too much uncertainty for the last day. And what hurts the most, what it should have been to what it is, after a great game. Naples will decide. It does not seem the best scenario to play a European qualification.