Montanier ha empezado a sacarle jugo a este equipo hace pocos meses. La temporada pasada y el comienzo de esta ha sido pésimo. Teniendo tanta calidad en la plantilla, se tenía que jugar como estamos jugando estas últimas jornadas.

Vela, Griezmann, Chory, X. Prieto, Zurutuza, Pardo, Illarra, Mikel González y I. Martínez tienen un nivel altísimo. Después completamos la plantilla con Charly, DLB, Agirretxe, Ifran y Markel de nivel medio y Estrada, José Ángel, Cadamuro, Ros, Ansotegi, Elustondo (que malo es) para llenar el banquillo.

Hoy hemos jugado un gran partido, nos hemos encontrado con un par de goles anulados, un portero muy inspirado y muchas ocasiones. Una pena esos fallos defensivos que nos han costado dos inmerecidos goles cuando estábamos haciendo un gran partido.

Por cierto, creo que es el primer equipo contra el que jugamos, que en el minuto 89 todavía atacaban. El primer equipo que no se centra en "perder" el tiempo. Enhorabuena.

José Ángel de suplente en la Real y Canella jugando en Segunda, con lo que prometían ambos. Aún me acuerdo cuando en el FM acababan los dos siendo de los mejores laterales del mundo, Diego Castro en el United, Bilic de pichichi... ese Sporting más inflado no podía estar.

Editado Marzo 4, 201312 años por Picho

Mandale un saludo a Tudesky de paso, Picho

La verdad que notable la temporada de la real. Quien lo iba a decir a principio de temporada.

yo

La verdad que notable la temporada de la real. Quien lo iba a decir a principio de temporada.

yo

Y yo. En el hilo de pronósticos, fui de los únicos que la metí como clasificada para la Europa League.

La verdad que notable la temporada de la real. Quien lo iba a decir a principio de temporada.

yo

Y yo. En el hilo de pronósticos, fui de los únicos que la metí como clasificada para la Europa League.

Yo también, acompañada del Mallorca

La verdad que notable la temporada de la real. Quien lo iba a decir a principio de temporada.

yo

Y yo. En el hilo de pronósticos, fui de los únicos que la metí como clasificada para la Europa League.

Yo también, acompañada del Mallorca

Esa la fallas seguro

Sirve de algo que ponga esto en inglés? Bueno, por si alguien quiere leerlo, gran artículo de The Guardian sobre la situación actual que atraviesa el equipo:

First they became the only side to beat Barcelona, coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 with a 90th-minute winner. Then they won the last ever Basque derby at San Mamés, their captain leaving the stadium with a stone replica of the cathedral he had conquered at last to go alongside the match ball he took from the Santiago Bernabéu. Now Real Sociedadhave become the only team to beat Atlético Madrid at the Vicente Calderón this season. Not just the only team to beat them: the first team to even get a point there. In fact, last night Real Sociedad became the first team to get any points at the Calderón since Real Sociedad got a point at the Calderón last season. And the impact could be huge.

Fifty-two minutes had gone when Antoine Griezmann sent Xabi Prieto running through. Standing before him, all in yellow, a man who had just broken a club record. Somewhere in the midst of that garish collage of adverts – Buy A Kia. Need a Taxi? Drink Coca-Cola. Eat meat – the clock on the stadium scoreboard ticked up to 34min and they started chanting. "Courtois! Courtois! Courtois!" The goalkeeper had just passed Abel Resino's record: he'd not let one in since October when Roland Lamah scored for Osasuna. Now, 33 minutes after the chant, five months and 819 match-minutes after he had last conceded, it finally happened again.

This time it mattered too. Lamah's goal was a solitary strike in a 3-1 defeat; Prieto's was a solitary strike, full stop. He slowed down and curled the ball under Courtois' body to put Atlético Madrid behind for the first time all season and there was no way back. At full-time, Iñigo Martínez clenched his fist and let out a roar. High in the stands, Real Sociedad's fans leapt up and down. Fourteen consecutive league wins later, in the week in which coach Diego Simeone had signed a new contract, Atlético Madrid had been defeated. The record gone, their place too. Real Sociedad had done it again.

Look at the table this morning and for the first time this season Atlético are behind Real Madrid, slipping from second into third. Look a little lower, but just a little, and for the first time this season Real Sociedad are in a Champions League place: fifth, level on points with fourth-placed Málaga who Uefa has banned from European competition next season. "This is great! It's a joy to be in this position," the captain Xabi Prieto insisted. "If you had told me at the start of the season that we would be there, I'd have said you were mad."

Hardly surprising. This is, after all, the first time that la Real have been in a Champions League place in a decade. In 2002-03, they were runners-up; since then they have not finished in the top half of the first division table. Three of the last five years have been spent in the second division. Their coach, Philippe Montanier, who joined a year and a half ago, seems to have been permanently on the verge of the sack or a fans' rebellion, supporters calling for his head, the club calling potential successors. And this season started with six defeats in the first 10. But Sunday's win was their third away win in a row, and since those opening 10 games, they have lost just one in 17 - and that was 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabéu, a game where for a long time, as one match report put it, "Real Madrid were a toy in their hands."

Within the club, most say that the turning point came away at Málaga in week 11. One first-team player talks about "correcting mistakes." That day, la Real took a step forward. Until then they had been a a la expectativa: they tended to wait rather than really go for the game, as if they did not fully trust in the talent their players held. . Certainly, that was the accusation levelled at Montanier and often quite aggressively too: his critics said he was too conservative. Media and supporters were not always impressed. Focus was trained particularly on Rubén Pardo, for whom la Real have already turned down a €6m bid from Real Madrid, and Montanier's apparent reluctance to include the player that most excited the fans.

Against Málaga, Markel Bergara and Elustondo were injured. Asier Illaramendi and Pardo played together. Victory followed, then another win at Valencia when they scored five. Pardo started that game too, albeit without Illaramendi. It is not as if they suddenly became super-attacking and nor did Pardo become an automatic starter – he has begun just nine games – but something shifted. The players stepped up, the atmosphere changed, the attitude. The belief. Prieto was switched from the right to the middle where he could influence the game more, combining with those around him, his relative lack of pace less of a problem; Vela began to play nominally on the left wing, a starting point from which to attack on the diagonal rather than finding himself stuck up front. The speed of their attacks was devastating: There are few front threes as swift as Vela, Griezmann and Chori Castro. Only three teams have scored more goals; no team has delivered as many passes into the area. Last week, they drew 3-3 with Betis at home.

Sometimes there is a tendency to over-analyse; sometimes the explanation is startlingly simple: la Real have very good players, most of them technically impressive. Go through them one by one and, judged purely on ability, few squads have so much talent. There are other factors but even those have to be judged in the context of a talented team. For eight games in a row they played against a man fewer, too, while Sunday night's goal should probably have been ruled out for offside. But if that run of red cards looked like luck, Griezmann insists it was quite the opposite: "red cards are not chance," he insists, "we have a lot of quality and a lot of pace and because teams cannot stop us, they end up fouling us."

Having started to win away, they began encountering ultra-defensive opponents at home, while at times it still feels like they need an out-and-out striker who guarantees goals. But there was greater variety about their game, more belief and creativity. And they are far more resolute, as Atlético found out to their cost, defeated at their own game. Montanier's work was taking effect – "I'm glad the results are starting to prove him right after everything that was said," one player insists – and they were also gaining in confidence and maturity, conceding fewer goals: Mikel Gonzalez has been a revelation at centre-back and Montanier has praised their ability to "suffer" and to defend intelligently. Against Athletic Bilbao they were overrun in the first half, one player insisting that a year ago they would have lost that match; on Sunday night the coach highlighted their ability to defend through possession and catch Atlético with speed.

Then there's the intangible. When they were relegated at the end of 2006-07, la Real were forced to turn to youth. That was the bad news; the good news was that the work being done at Zubieta was impressive and so – despite the greater financial muscle of Athletic Bilbao – was the scouting, the ability to bring talented players into the club. Important players have been signed – Claudio Bravo, Carlos Vela, and this season Chori Castro – yet of la Real's 23-man squad, 16 have played for Real Sociedad B. That tradition is not new but now an especially talented generation is coming through too, growing together: the central midfielders Rubén Pardo and Asier Illaramendi and the centre back Iñigo Martínez (who scored from inside his own half twice last season), all born after 1990, will certainly be Spain internationals in the next few years.

Now they talk about their stress on home-grown players as a philosophy, a matter of principle not price. Montanier was brought in, at least in part, because of the belief that underlying his success in bringing Boulogne up from the fourth division to the first was his handling of young players. At Real Sociedad, players describe him as "methodical"; he likes his team to have the ball and he likes to control every detail – asked recently if the players would be eating a big Basque steak to celebrate victory, he responded "watch the diet". He is strict but he has also shown a softer touch with younger players, insisting that they are still exactly that: young players. Within the squad they describe him as "calm", keen to develop young players but slowly, steadily.

The philosophy is about identity; this is a team that represents something: seven of their players were born in the province Guipúzcoa of which San Sebastián is the capital. Xabi Prieto, a Real Sociedad season-ticket holder from the age of five, did not leave when the team went down, even though his former manager Juanma Lillo insisted that he was good enough to play for Barcelona. He talks about the degree of commitment and collectiveness within the squad, which the players from outside of Guipúzcoa and the Basque Country embrace. "When we go out, there can be 15 of us all together," Prieto says. Arsenal have an option to sign Carlos Vela for €4m; he may not have any choice but he says he wants to stay.

It makes sense. Vela has scored 12 times this seasons and provided six assists, becoming one of La Liga's outstanding performers. Stay and next season he may get the chance in the Champions League. After 10 games unbeaten, that's the spot his side occupy this morning. The question is can they stay there? Asked exactly that, Prieto replied: "I don't know." It didn't sound like he thought they could. But then no one thought they would beat Barcelona. Or win the last ever derby at San Mamés. Or end Atlético Madrid's 15 game winning run.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/mar/11/real-sociedad-atletico-madrid-la-liga?CMP=twt_gu

Partidazo el de ayer y ya con 47 puntos. 4ºs a la espera de lo que haga el málaga.

Aquí os dejo el resumen con goles, vaya golazos.

http://canalplus.es/lacasadelfutbol/liga/liga-bbva/20130316plucanftb_3.Ves

Partidazo el de ayer y ya con 47 puntos. 4ºs a la espera de lo que haga el málaga.

Aquí os dejo el resumen con goles, vaya golazos.

http://canalplus.es/lacasadelfutbol/liga/liga-bbva/20130316plucanftb_3.Ves

El Málaga ha perdío

Somos ahora mismo el equipo de moda en toda Europa,esto cada vez pinta mejor y la Champions parece mas una realidad que un sueño... aunque hay que seguir ganando que por detras el Valencia viene fuerte!!!