Real Sociedad complicates life in Europe

Real Sociedad hoped to quench their thirst for points in the Europa League by taking advantage of their visit to the Czech Republic this Thursday, but they return to San Sebastián having to deal with the consequences of a bad hangover. A goal from Vasulin on the horn gave Viktoria Pilsen a victory that darkens the horizon of the San Sebastian team in the second continental competition and improves that of the squad from the beer city.

After a great goal from Óskarsson’s header after a cross from Oyarzabal allowed Imanol Alguacil’s team to equalize a score that had gone in favor of the local side thanks to a goal from the extremely dangerous Adu, the visitors pushed and had chances to give them the return to the result despite the fact that Viktoria Pilsen also showed its claws. However, fortune eluded Real Sociedad with an outcome that placed them outside the positions that would allow them to compete in the next round.

With four points in as many games and twenty-fifth in the table, Real Sociedad will have to work very hard when they still have to face opponents of the caliber of Ajax or Lazio to be at least in the round of 32, since the pass Direct to the round of 16 seems almost a chimera today.

Imanol Alguacil was satisfied with the convincing victory that Real Sociedad achieved last Sunday against Sevilla at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán. For that reason, and also taking into account the importance of the event, the Orio coach did not make any more modifications to his eleven with respect to the aforementioned duel in Seville than the entry of Óskarsson at the tip of the spear, sacrificing Brais Méndez in the engine room. He compensated for this move by moving Sergio Gómez to the midfielder position and gave the outer horns of the offensive trident to Kubo, who reached one hundred games as a txuri urdin footballer, and to Oyarzabal.

The Real Sociedad captain championed a good contact with the game by the San Sebastian team, which added three interesting attacks on the left wing but soon found itself behind on the scoreboard. Viktoria Pilsen had resisted that start with the vigor of Real Sociedad and gradually balanced the forces when Adu managed to complete a counterattack by beating Remiro with a low right hand that entered the short post.

The verticality of the Ghanaian attacker was one of the main weapons of Viktoria Pilsen, a tough team well worked by the veteran Czech coach Miroslav Koubek, relegated to the stands this Thursday due to the suspension he was carrying. The Real Sociedad defense suffered with its attacks in a section in which the visiting block took risks in search of a tie.

Real Sociedad lacked precision in the pass, held back by the individual marks put forward by Viktoria Pilsen until Oyarzabal broke the chains with an action that helped him make his way in front of a tender Paluska and unleash a measured cross that Óskarsson sent to the net with an extraordinary header. Shortly after, Oyarzabal wasted a perfect opportunity to turn the score around by poorly controlling a masterful delivery from Zubeldia behind the center backs that had left the attacker alone in front of the goalkeeper.

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Real Sociedad dominated, but Viktoria Pilsen threatened with dangerous blows that tested the Txuri Urdin resistance. Remiro aborted a violent shot by Sulc in a duel that opened up more in the second half. Oyarzabal responded with a whip that Jedlicka repelled and Jirka responded in turn with a blow that the former Mirandés and Oviedo footballer crossed excessively.

Viktoria Pilsen came into the fight more demanding, with their first three matches in the league tied, which motivated the Czech team to take a step forward and put Remiro to the test again with a Vaseline from Adu that saved the goal. goalkeeper. By then Imanol Alguacil had already made a move, who enlisted Sheraldo Becker in the hope that the Suriname international could take advantage of the spaces that were generated with his speed, before also giving way to Brais Méndez in the midfield, sacrificing Javi López and relocating Sergio Gómez as left back.

The two relays from Real created a sharp action in which Óskarsson bothered Oyarzabal and the San Sebastian team continued pushing in search of victory, but a deflection by Vasulin after a shot from Kalvach ended up costing them an unfair defeat that Oyarzabal could not avoid with a great occasion after Óskarsson’s hairstyle and that makes his life in Europe very complicated.