It is football without a soul, without life, and in matches like yesterday, it causes teams like Real to feel more alone than one. It is impossible to know what would have happened if the stands of Anoeta had been full but it is not difficult to imagine that with a football development identical to the one we saw yesterday at the Txuri Urdin stadium, the game would not have been lost by Real with the support of his fans.
It is a denatured football, almost inert, in which there is no external stimulus that can condition the game in favor of the home team. And that, on days like yesterday, when the team that visits you is Real Madrid, places the hosts in a sort of death row. The game seems even, because between the teams are not to press the 'full gas' button and that it is convenient to manage efforts because it is played again in 72 hours, they do not have the fast pace of a high intensity match as it is a Real Sociedad-Real Madrid with the Champions League and the League at stake.
Lined up towards the wall
But in that narcotic rocking in which the ball is entangled, from here to there, without apparent sense, without verticality, except that Vinicius takes it for which life is a permanent slalom, all the tickets for the charger of the roulette is emptied in your temple has them the least powerful team. In this case the Real. For the txuri urdin to win Madrid an essential tool is for their people to be throwing firewood at the stake of their hearts, but in this way, more alone than ever, the party is heading towards a wall with few options to get out alive. .
It is a football in which it seems to be played inside a cellophane wrapper, with the delicacy of being in a hospital box or in an operating room. And that causes the third element, in this case the collegiate, to be handled with the same coldness. With a lack of passion that has nothing to do with the nature of this game. And that, on days like yesterday, in which the new leader of the League visits you, makes the historical tendency of the collegiates to sweep towards Chamartín reach extreme shades. All the decisions made by Estrada Fernández that decisively conditioned the scoreboard were favorable to Madrid. They allowed him to break the game when almost nothing had happened, they prevented Real from getting into the match with the tie of a Januzaj who had come out with the 'hot hand' and they finished the job with the goal that sentenced the duel despite the Real's final reaction.
This soccer without people in which the substitutes joke with the mobile phone in the stands and even the sounds of the rival coach's stomach are heard has made him feel like a shot at Real who feels more alone than ever. He scores a point in three games and is looking committed to his position in next season's Europa League. Let the doors open now!