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Real Sociedad and Villarreal drew the points in a match that was resolved in the first half with two separate penalties from Gerard Moreno and Mikel Oyarzabal and which means the end of the winning streak of the team of Imanol Alguacil, who maintains the leadership in LaLiga Santander with a point of advantage over Atlético de Madrid, who have played two fewer games.
It was a ‘Europa League’ duel, even and balanced, as expected, between two of the teams called to fight for the privileged positions that have even commanded the tournament in these first days.
Unai Emery’s team, with fresh players after not being the main starters on Thursday against Maccabi Tel Aviv, locked up Real in the first minutes and immediately found a prize when Aritz went with everything to a ball with which he was going to connect the Ecuadorian Pervis Estupiñán and knocked down the Ecuadorian in the local area.
The international Gerard Moreno, who is in good shape, did not miss the opportunity to overtake Villarreal and put on the nerves of a Basque team that missed the lighthouse that always illuminates their game, David Silva.
However, the San Sebastian team improved as the game progressed and their chances began, those of Le Normand and Barrenetxea missed, but not the penalty transformed by the infallible Mikel Oyarzabal after half an hour of play.
Tables to face a second half in which the management of efforts and the bench could play a decisive role given the accumulation of meetings for both teams between LaLiga and the continental competition.
The game was stopped due to a spectacular blow to Merino, which required stapling his eyebrow, and in the resumption the Real was about to score in a brilliant play by Oyarzabal that the Brazilian Willian José did not complete when the gap closed by Asenjo to deflect to corner kick.
Both teams sought victory in the final stretch but the forces were already somewhat fair, which brought the match to a practically absolute balance that could be broken in the last second with a Monreal tackle that the referee, after consultations, did not reach check.
