The goal of Willian
Joseph to Naples in the renamed Diego Armando Maradona will become part of the gallery of so many historical of the Royal. The Brazilian forward's right hand is worth a qualification for the round of 32 of the Europa League, joining other goals remembered such as that of Adnan
Januzaj in the Wanda Metropolitano that was worth to achieve the classification to play this tournament, or to Juanmi in Balaídos in the 2016/17 season to achieve the same goal.
With 1-0 on the scoreboard and the 90th minute passed, the eyes, in addition to Naples, were focused on Rijeka, where AZ Alkmaar tied their game (1-1) and had just finished with 10 players after the expulsion of Karlsson. The Dutch, who had been dominant in many sections of the match, had given up the attack, hoping to defend that tie and that the Real would be unable to score in the old San Paolo.
There, with the first minute of the extension consumed, the anguish txuri urdin began to be evident, which together with the impotence generated by not being able to create dangerous occasions and the memory of those wasted by For your, Porto Calvo's own striker or Merino, made the elimination on the horizon even more painful.
However, as happened in Rijeka when Jon
Baptist he scored in the 92nd minute a goal that at the time seemed fundamental and which has now acquired even more significance, Willian
Joseph rescued the team by hunting down a Barrenetxea that fell in the Neapolitan area so that Willy put all his soul in the auction, which exceeded the stretch of Ospina to kiss the networks with the same love as your own Maradona put in the Azteca Stadium in 1986 when he kissed the World Cup after defeating Germany in the final.
The outburst of joy from the whole team was immediate, but Rijeka, where the Real could do nothing, was still in the subconscious. A goal from AZ sent Real home.
Fortunately the sensation did not last long because seconds later Ivan
Tomecak scored the second goal for the Croats and the news traveled the 935 kilometers that separate the Rujevica stadium from Diego Armando Maradona at the same speed that the Argentine star left the English defenders behind at the Azteca Stadium to score the Goal of the Century in La Jugada of all times.
The gazes between the Real and Napoli benches must have crossed and in that universal language that is football, it was clear that the game was over. As had happened on July 19 at the Wanda Metropolitano after the goal of Januzaj, Donostiarras and Italians signed the peace, aware that the value of that tie was enough. Naples was first and Real was classified for the sixteenth. And so friends.