At just 20 years old, Dean Huijsen had already established himself as a sure value of Real Madrid. Solid since the start of the season, the young defender had the opportunity to confirm against Real Sociedad his status as an indisputable holder and new nugget of the Merengue workforce.
But the meeting quickly turned into a nightmare for him: sanctioned with a red card after having irregularly stopped a Mikel Oyarzabal launched opposite, Huijsen was expelled from half an hour of play. The referee estimated that he was illicitly stopped a frank goal, thus forcing Real to evolve in inferiority for more than an hour (1-0).
