Liga: Villarreal and Real Sociedad share the points in a controversial match

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By: Manu Tournoux

It was a beautiful poster that was played this afternoon at La Cerámica. Villarreal received Real Sociedad for the 32nd day of Liga, for a decisive meeting in the race for the Champions League. And finally, neither of the two stables managed to get out of the game. Yeremi Pino opened the scoring for the locals after 7 minutes, ideally launching the Marcelino team (1-0). But those of Imanol Alguacil did not discuss, and equalized through Mikel Oyarzabal, who transformed a penalty obtained by Aihen Muñoz (1-1, 19th). Real was then going to take the advantage at the start of the second period. Oyarzabal, again, benefited from a huge error by Luiz Júnior, contravene the relaunch of the porter to allow his family to lead 1-2 (49th).

The reaction of the yellow submarine was not long in coming, and Ayoze Pérez reset the meters to zero at a whim on a center of Pino (2-2, 60th). Decisive passer, the 22-year-old thought he was giving his family the advantage after an ideal service, but saw his goal be refused for a slight offside position (69th). Villarreal was pushing, and it was then Pope Gueye's turn to see his goal refused, this time for an illicit position of Pérez on his volley (84th). Dani Parejo's teammates were going to be disgusted: Nicolas Pépé tumbled on the right side and given Thierno Barry back, who marked in additional time. But the referee of the meeting saw a very questionable fault, of the left -hander on his defender in his race, and again refused the goal. Final score: 2-2, which does not affect either of the two teams. Villarreal remains 5th, a qualifying place at the C1, while the Real Sociedad points to 9th row, at a point in Celta de Vigo, which could play the qualifications at the Europa Conference League.