The Real Sociedad seems stuck before facing the terrifying January slope that is about to begin, with matches of up to three different competitions. The San Sebastian team has gone from leading the First Division classification, getting up to six points from their pursuers, to occupying third place, a position that it maintains with 30 points despite its stagnation, but with its most immediate pursuers one or two games less than the royalists, which endangers even his position in the Champions League positions.
The txuri-urdin team it seemed to have cut its bad dynamics with the victory in the Basque derby of San Mamés against Athletic Club with which 2020 was closed, but the draw against Osasuna has returned the bad feelings and doubts to the realistic environment. In fact, since the last league break, La Real It has only been able to win two games in twelve games, between the League and the Europa League, with three defeats and seven draws. These are numbers that little by little have been moving him away from the privileged position he had when he arrived as a solvent leader alone at the last league break due to the commitments of national teams, exciting his fans with repeating their fight for the league title of the historic 2002-03 season, when he was runner-up for the last time.
In this slump of results The fact that renovated Anoeta, no longer running tracks, is less Anoeta may also influence. The magnificent communion between fans and players, and the spectacular appearance of the stands, which had been achieved with the remodeling, has come to nothing because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has alienated the spirited royalists from the Reale Arena. It has affected all the teams, but perhaps the Real is one of those that has suffered the most negative consequences of not having its public supporting it, to the point that of the 15 games the San Sebastian team has played in Anoeta without an audience, it has only won four games; when since the athletics tracks were removed the percentage of victories had risen exponentially, turning their stadium into a fort. That has a decisive influence, because he has only been able to get 22 points out of 54 possible in Anoeta since confinement, which represents only 40% of the points that he has had at stake.
Another aspect that influences the jam in which the Real is immersed It is the load of games that he has assumed this season, in which he has already played 24 games. That, together with the significant casualties they have had in recent months, has made Real lose freshness and the good feelings they transmitted in terms of playing with the ball at their feet. It is evident that the accumulated fatigue of its squad worries the Real's coaching staff, because Imanol has to make bobbin lace on many occasions to conform alignments of guarantees. “The minutes are accumulating. Before Osasuna we dropped Monreal and we have to be careful. I'm not looking for excuses, but the approach is based on the fact that we played three days ago. Isak was dead, Gorosabel the same, Igor played on the side and the team had to be refreshed, I remove Oyarzabal because there is to take care of him. It is touching all the coaches. We have the Covid issue and for those of us who have played the Europa League it has been crazy, “says Imanol.