The numbers of the historic leadership of the Royal Society

The Real Sociedad will enjoy throughout the week what it is like to be the solo leader of the First Division. In fact, with Europe at stake, he will travel to the Wanda Metropolitano to defend his leadership at the home of the current League champion, Atlético de Madrid. Big words. But this first place for the San Sebastian team hides a series of numbers that make it practically something historic. They are the figures behind the leader of Primera.

To get started, Imanol Alguacil is already the Real Sociedad coach who has had the San Sebastian team at the top of the table for the longest time since the runner-up season with Raynald Denueix. Since the Oriotarra took over the first team bench, he has managed to make Real the leader of the First team on seven occasions, six in last season and the current day in which he occupies the first place alone, among other things for the postponement of the matches of Real Madrid and Atlético itself. This is the leadership of First number 78 in the history of the San Sebastian club, which is already becoming a regular in the noble zone of the classification in recent years. In fact, the 20 points he has on this day It is the second best score of a Royal leader at this stage of the championship.

But there is more, Imanol Alguacil’s team has taken a tremendous step forward in the defensive section. So much so that accumulates the first five games at the Reale Arena without losing and without conceding a single goal, with four wins and a draw against Sevilla. La Real had not achieved a similar statistic since 1984, when the mythical Luis Miguel Arconada was there defending the realistic goal and was still played in Atotxa. It has rained a lot since then. But this leader of the First Division is so solvent that he is able to win even playing with one less player during the entire second half. The realistic team is not a specialist in playing in inferiority, as shown by the fact that since 1996 he had not been able to win a game playing with one less player on the pitch. On Saturday he flew to do it 25 years later. This Real from Imanol that accumulates positive statistics is very serious.