The expression 'point
fateful'To refer to the exact place since the penalty is taken, 11 meters from the goal, it seems inspired by the history of Real, at least in these more than 30 years without titles. On Wednesday the damned ‘penalties’, as the Argentines call them, kept the txuri urdin away from the possibility of reaching their first trophy since 1987, the Super Cup of Spain. It was then, the June 30th of that year already so distant, when the txuri urdin raised the Copa del Rey, and they did it in the penalty shoot-out, thanks to the full successes of Bakero, Mujika, Begiristain and Larrañaga and inspiration in the arc of Arconada, who stopped the final kick and guessed the intention of the executor in all the launches.
That day, Saragossa, full of 'enhance them', and Gipuzkoa they exploded with glee in the sweltering heat. But a curse was also born that seems to have signs of lengthening in time, like the one formulated by Monsieur
Comet in 1907, when he ventured that “La Real will never win the Cup.” It lasted 80 years.
Since Arconada won the Copa del Rey, the Real has been eliminated in seven of the eight occasions in which they have had to play it on penalties. The last, last Wednesday thanks to the failure from the 11 meters of Baptist, Oyarzabal and Willian
José, which made the targets of Merino and Januzaj. 2-3 from the fatal point after 1-1 on the court, in which the Real deserved more and ran into one of the best performances that are reminded of Ter
Stegen.
Nothing can surprise the realist fan, who has seen them in all colors, especially at cup crosses. Since 1987, the Donostiarras have been lowered in the final fate of penalties on four of the five occasions in which they have equalized both in the tie and in extra time. The victory against Sabadell in the 1989/90 campaign was the exception. The 3-2 equalized the crossing and from 11 meters, the result was 6-5. Those attending Atotxa could not venture that it was going to be historic, unprecedented in recent history. The previous year, the Donostiarras had already fallen against Depor in Atotxa on penalties, in a round in which they only got Goikoetxea and they failed Zamora, Mujika and Uria.
The bloodiest cup eliminations from the fatal point were later, always against inferior rivals, against the Numantia in Anoeta In the season 1995/96, after 20 launches and final failure of the goalkeeper Alberto, against Mirandés under the flood in 2004/05, with a final error of From Paula, and against Zamora in 2005/06, with full of blunders of Boris, Novo, Agirretxe and graceful.
Against him Stuttgart (88/89) and the Partizan (89/90) in the UEFA Cup the realistic fate was identical: eliminated on penalties