LReal Sociedad will have to tie Wissam Ben Yedder short today, if he wants to have options to defeat Monaco and take an important step in his goal of overcoming the group stage, since the txuriurdin team was the one that best gave him now forward of the French team, during his time in LaLiga with Sevilla, by scoring seven goals, including two hat-tricks, one of them in Anoeta.
Ben Yedder surely remembers, when he stepped on Anoeta this afternoon, on January 7, 2017, when he made his first hat trick in Spain, for a 0-4 with Sevilla. The French striker would score again in San Sebastián the following season, although this time to fall 3-1. That Real were good at it, he was going to ratify it in his third and last year in LaLiga, with another hat-trick, in just 15 minutes, this time at Pizjuán for a 5-2.
The Sarcelles man then signed the last great contract of his life, after being transferred for about 40 million euros to a Monaco with whom he probably did not expect to meet his favorite team in LaLiga, Real, to which he made seven of the 38 goals he signed in his three seasons, almost 20%.
Three valuable points
The elimination of Monaco against Shakhtar, in the Champions League playoff, and the capricious draw have allowed Ben Yedder to once again be a rival of a txuriurdin team that must overcome the striker and the rest of the players of the French team, so as not to complicate their qualification for the qualifying rounds of this Europa League.
If they were to win, Real would add three points with which they would surpass their rival in the classification today and would remain on a par with PSV, before the double duel against Sturm Graz, the less strong rival in the group and against that the six points would be essential without the three of today.
