Manchester United kept his hopes of the Europa League intact, and a desperate season, with a draw won in San Sebastian, but it was not quite difficult on a difficult night at the Reale Arena.
Four days after he was crying after having a decisive penalty saved in the FULHAM Copa shooting, Joshua Zirkzee shot United in the second half.
But the leadership did not last long, since Mikel Oyarzabal was leveled from the place so that everything square entered the second section next week in Old Trafford.
United will be light favorites after maintaining his record as the only undefeated team of the Champions League and the European League this season. But it was a little convincing performance and there is still a long way to go before they can think about returning to the Basque Country in May to play in the final in neighboring Bilbao.
After Fulham's defeat, this is still the last opportunity of United of a trophy and the only thing that prevents its season from ending effectively in March. Winning would mean an automatic rating for the Champions League and an unexpected gain of £ 100 million, but first they must deal with society.
There were no surprises in the alignment of Ruben Amorim, largely because he had very few options. With 10 players were at home injured and the young Chido striker obi not eligible for Europe, United had traveled with a team of 18 men. It included two novice goalkeepers who were in the bank who left only five field players among the substitutes.
Joshua Zirkzee broke the dead point for Manchester United against Real Sociedad on Thursday
Var Replays showed that the ball hit Bruno Fernandes's hand to give the hosts a golden opportunity to return to the game
The Captain of the Royal Society Mikel Oyarzabal then leveled the place with 20 minutes to play
“Freshness is important but we don't have many options,” said Amorim before the start. We are ready. In the second half we will feel it a bit, but we are excited to be here.
'We need to be really strong. At first it will be intense and choose the team thinking about that. The possession of the ball is important. If we have it, it is impossible to write down. If we lose it in accumulation, they are really strong and fast to go to the goal. We need to improve possession.
Society was missing his best player in Martin Zubimendi, who is attracting a lot of interest from Arsenal, and entered the game after consecutive defeats to Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey and Barcelona in the League. The latter saw that the ninth team in Spain failed to score for the 12th time in 26 league games this season.
It was United who had the first effort in the goal in the 12th minute. Alejandro Garnacho, whose first goal for the club came to this land and in this competition when United won 1-0 here in November 2022, he received the ball of Rasmus Hojlund when United broke and pointed a shot directly to Alex Remiro's arms from the edge of the box.
From another break eight minutes later, Garnacho fed Patrick Dorgu, but raised his high and broad effort from a similar position. Dorgu gave United to United shortly after when he fell with anyone near him, but could continue after treatment, which was a great relief given the situation of the injury.
Dalot had the opportunity to play in Hojlund in the middle of half, but did not take it, for the discomfort of the £ 72 million of United whose goal drought has entered his current time, and made his feelings known to his teammate.
“So that Dalot does not see him criminal,” said former Unitedist from United and sports expert TNT Paul Scholes.
Although society enjoyed the participation of the possession of the lion in a first monotonous half, 61 percent compared to 39 percent of United, it was the Amorim side who continued to represent the greatest threat and its best opportunity arrived in the 37th minute.
Alejandro Garnacho was involved from the beginning, while United assumed and probed for the first game
Patrick Dorgu gave United to United when he got off the ball with no one around him
Ruben Amorim's team has now gone 20 games without scoring a goal in the first half
Andre Onana did not face a shot in his goal before the penalty of Oyarzabal in the 70th minute
United keeps his season alive with the raffle, but sometimes he was not pretty in northern Spain
Casemiro and Garnacho combined to the right to give Diogo Dalot the opportunity to cross, and he withdrew the ball to Bruno Fernandes, who was not marked. The first half -time effort of the united pattern was entering, but hit Aritz Elustondo and the attempt to follow up by Joshua Zirkzee did not reach anything.
Fernandes returned the favor in the 42nd minute, sending a pass to the box for Dalot, which rose on Nayef Aguerd to go directly to Remiro. It was just as good for the guardian of the company because he had moved away from his line waiting for Agued to win the header, and his goal was exposed.
It meant that United has now gone 20 games without scoring in the first half, but at least they were in front of 12 minutes of the restart.
Once again, he came from a break, Casemiro chose Dalot's career in half with a step outside his right boot. The first touch of Dalot was not ideal, but put the ball under control and fed Garnacho on the right. The end of Argentina ran to two defenders and removed the ball back to Zirkzee on the edge of the box that knew him with a wide final for the first time.
The shot was in the center of the goal, but Remiro's reaction was slow and the ball flew under his body when Zirkzee celebrated only his second goal in 17 games.
But the company was level in the 70th minute when Var, Pol Van Boekel, saw that Fernandes had drove with his left arm when he challenged Aguerd in a corner and advised the Slovak referee Ivan Kruzliak who went to the monitor on the side of the inclination. He pointed out the place and Captain Oyarzabal stepped forward to send Andre Onana in the wrong way with the first genuine effort of society in the goal of the night.
It could have been even worse for United when Sheraldo Becker crossed the distant post in the 84th minute and his substitute partner Orri Oskarsson only had to overcome Onana, but stabbed widely under the pressure of Leny Yoro. Onana then stopped from Oskarsson in an additional time when a tired United clied on at the end.