Real Sociedad took another step this Tuesday to enter the Champions League, which could be confirmed this Wednesday if Villarreal does not win their game, after doing their homework against an AlmerÃa team that could not stop striker Take Kubo and who paid dearly for the expulsion in the first half of the Colombian Luis Suárez.
Both teams had a lot at stake in this match, AlmerÃa’s objective of certifying their permanence would be virtually achieved with a victory and the people from San Sebastian would also practically certify the ‘Champions’ with a victory.
Rubi’s team seemed to take it more seriously, leaving the initiative to the local team but when they mounted a counterattack the ‘txuri urdin’ team suffered and Remiro would avoid a major scare with a shot from Lázaro who was looking for the squad until Remiro intervened.
Things would get worse for the blue and whites when, at the first change, David Silva was injured, between cotton last week, so the beacon of local offensive football was at risk of going out without the presence of the canary.
The people of AlmerÃa would throw a cable when Real was passing its lowest moment, Luis Suárez made an incessant entry into the midfield to Le Normand and after a VAR review the Colombian striker headed the way to the changing rooms with a monumental anger.
There began another match in which the Gipuzkoans were already much more comfortable on the field, so that Carlos Fernández warned with a shot that he should have scored due to the clarity of his position and in the discount before the break came the individual action, with a great shot, from the Japanese Kubo to put his team ahead.
The second half had another color for a Real that locked AlmerÃa in its field and, like a handball or water polo game, it circulated from side to side until it found the gap that would allow it to close the game.
He did not find it because the Andalusian team closed ranks although he had to suffer with the exhibition of Take Kubo, the impossible element to decipher for a good AlmerÃa at the Reale Arena.
1 – Real Sociedad: Remiro; Gorosabel (Aritz Elustondo, min. 81), Pacheco, Le Normand, Aihen; Zubimendi, Merino, Silva (Brais Méndez, min. 19); Kubo, Oyarzabal (Barrenetxea, min. 60) and Carlos Fernández (Sorloth, min. 60).
0 – AlmerÃa: Fernando MartÃnez; Pozo, Ely, Babic, Akieme; De la Hoz (Embarba, min. 81), Samu Costa (Egüaras, min. 46), Puigmal (Ramazani, min. 67); Lázaro (Sousa, min. 57), Luis Suárez, Portillo (Robertone, min. 57).
Goal: 1-0, min. 45 4: Take Kubo.
Referee: González Fuertes (Asturian Committee). He sent off Luis Suárez with a direct red card in the 35th minute for a tackle on Le Normand.
Incidents: 31,574 spectators at the Reale Arena, a minute’s silence was observed for the recently deceased Iñaki Alkiza. former president of the club between 1983 and 1992.
