The curse of Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou: Without points for 25 years

The FC Barcelona had to sweat to go back to win in LaLiga, but attained to defeat to a challenging Real Sociedad. The pupilos of Quique Setién dominated to an opponent respondón and generated occasions, but when this loomed with creating them problems, received a so useful help as unexpected. The meeting decided because the VAR detected a penalti by hand of Robin Him Normand that Leo Messi converted.

The day of the Saturday lengthened the curse of the donostiarras in the Camp Nou, that had been news in the previous. In the last times, has been very commented the bad series of the Catalans in the Stadium of Anoeta, but neither is necessary obviar some painful registers for the ones of San Sebastián in his battle with the big, especially in a campaign in which they litigate for reaching the podium in the championship of the reguridad.

25 years ago that the Gipuzkoan do not attain to take out at least a point of the Estadi, in concrete from the season 1994-95. Then, Hristo Stoichkov advanced to the venues, but Andoni Imaz equalised on the horn to rescue a tie. From this nine April 1994, and explaining the one of this weekend, are 22 consecutive defeats, that elevate to 24 if they add two eliminatory stray in the Glass of Rey.

To find a victory it is necessary to retreat even more, until the course 1990-91. 29 years backwards, the men of Johan Cruyff bent the knee in front of the ones of Javier Expósito, that advanced with targets of Dalian Atkinson and John Aldridge, that aimed a doublet. Julio Saltworks achieved recortar distances, but although at the end the title finish in the vitrinas of the Barcelona, the triumph remained it to him the 'txuri-urdin'.

This time, the culés held on to LaLiga after a hard trip in the Classical, since they landed in Santiago Bernabéu with two points of advantage and left with the Real Madrid a point by on. Recover feelings and tie up three points was key so that the whites did not escape , and also to give a hit on the table in front of an opponent that arrived launched after planting in the final of the Glass of Rey.

Anoeta Also overwhelms to the Barça

Although it does some months, registered a 2-2, the Barça braked recently his nightmare in Anoeta, where the Real had gone in in series every time that the champion suspender belt called to the door. The problems that suffered trainers so successful like Pep Guardiola or Luis Enrique did not have it Ernesto Valverde, that in spite of suffering in his visits to San Sebastián, achieved to go out airoso and with victories in repeated occasions.