The Royal Society is the leader of the First Division in his own right. Nobody can doubt it anymore. Why accumulates four consecutive days at the top of the classification, and because he is winning all his games with great solvency, especially the last five. The donostiarras accumulate five consecutive victories thrashing his rivals.
The set of Imanol Alguacil also has leader numbers. Because the Real is the team that has scored the most goals so far, with 20 points. Plus, is the second least thrashed team with only four goals against, leaving his goal in five of the nine games that have been played. In fact, Remiro has obtained a record dating from the time of the mythical Luis Miguel Arconada, and is not to receive a single goal in more than four games in the first nine days. They are numbers that reflect the spectacular start of the league by Real Sociedad.
But he is also managing to silence the discordant voices with his leadership, those who call it unreal because big clubs like Real Madrid and Barça have one and two fewer games respectively. Taking for granted as true, the reality is that if today both teams recovered their matches, neither would surpass Real. Madrid would stay one point below Real and Barcelona, at most, would tie them on points. So the leadership of this Real is becoming less and less anecdotal. Only Atlético de Madrid can overtake him in the table if he won the two games that he also had to play, having started the season later.
One point less than in 2002
The Royal Society returns to a league break in November as leader of the First Division. As happened 17 years ago, in the remembered season of the last runner-up (2002-03). Then, his constant presence in the first position of the table was seen as something anecdotal, until he reached the last day with options to win a league that would escape him by only two points in favor of Real Madrid. If we take as a guide that Real trained by Denueix, Imanol Alguacil's team reaches this day with only one point less. 17 years ago he had 21 points compared to 20 now, because then he had not lost any game and now he has a defeat against Valencia. Both teams have 6 victories, but Real de Imanol has two draws for all three with Denueix, who was undefeated at this stage of the championship.