The first of two encounters in the Europa League Knockout Round Play-offs, as the hometeam RB Leipzig will try to edge Real Sociedad in their own ballpark.
It's quite the trip for Real Sociedad when visiting Leipzig as the cities are 1700 kilometers apart.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the La Liga.
RB Leipzig form and stats
RB Leipzig was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Champions League.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Red Bull Arena as RB Leipzig have scored 34 goals to get 27 points from 12 games. The overall stats in the Bundesliga are 9-0-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Leipzig's last game was hosting Köln and winning 3-1. The striker Olmo was named "man of the match" for RB Leipzig with a rating of 7.55/10. Olmo scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Bayern München (2-3).The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does RB Leipzig handle that role? We have found six games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, one draw and one defeat.
The manager Tedesco will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Hertha BSC in only three days.
RB Leipzig are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Red Bull Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 34 goals in 12 matches. 14 goals have been conceded.
Real Sociedad form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated PSV, Sturm Graz and Monaco in order to reach knockout round play-offs of Europa League. Sociedad was sent out of Europa League in the 16th finals last season, when Manchester United turned out to be too strong.As the visiting team in La Liga matches, Real Sociedad have produced an overall stat of 4-4-3 so far. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Real Sociedad goalkeeper Alejandro Remiro Gargallo is eager to challenge this, with his 392 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Alcântara and Oyarzabal scored in Real Sociedad's previous match, the home game against Granada that ended 2-0. Midfielder Oyarzabal was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.5. Oyarzabal scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Valencia.Sociedad are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, four draws and one defeat. From a total of five matches.
Real Sociedad have another game away in just three sleeps, a La Liga game versus Athletic Club. A difficult diary for the guests!
Real Sociedad have scored 15 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. 15 goals have been conceded by Sociedad in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Nkunku 11 goals |  A. Valente Silva 9 goals |   M. Oyarzabal Ugarte 8 goals |
RB Leipzig missing players
Real Sociedad missing players
| RB Leipzig | Real Sociedad | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 10 | Won | W | 6 | 11 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 49 | 33 | Scored | S | 20 | 32 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 72% | ||
| 64% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 68% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 52% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 28% | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 5.7 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | ||
| 13.8 | 13.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.9 | 12.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4.8 | ||
| 35% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 27% | ||
| 10.5 | 7.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10.7 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bayern München | 22 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 70 | 25 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 37 | 15 | 45 | 52 |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 22 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 57 | 36 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 21 | 46 |
| 3 | Bayer Leverkusen | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 58 | 36 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 17 | 22 | 41 |
| 4 | RB Leipzig | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 43 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 34 |
| 5 | Hoffenheim | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 43 | 34 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 9 | 34 |
| 6 | Freiburg | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 34 |
| 7 | Union Berlin | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 29 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 18 | -1 | 34 |
| 8 | Köln | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 34 | 37 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 22 | -3 | 32 |
| 9 | Mainz 05 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 31 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 31 |
| 10 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 33 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 19 | -1 | 31 |
| 11 | Bochum | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 22 | -8 | 28 |
| 12 | Wolfsburg | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -10 | 27 |
| 13 | Borussia M'gladbach | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 30 | 40 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | -10 | 26 |
| 14 | Hertha BSC | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 45 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 28 | -21 | 23 |
| 15 | Arminia Bielefeld | 22 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -8 | 22 |
| 16 | Augsburg | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 38 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 22 | -14 | 22 |
| 17 | Stuttgart | 22 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 26 | 42 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -16 | 18 |
| 18 | Greuther Furth | 22 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 20 | 57 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 40 | -37 | 13 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 48 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 28 | 54 |
| 2 | Sevilla | 24 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 36 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 50 |
| 3 | Real Betis | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 45 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 43 |
| 4 | FC Barcelona | 23 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 39 |
| 5 | Atlético Madrid | 23 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 42 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 39 |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 38 |
| 7 | Villarreal | 24 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 36 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 34 |
| 9 | Osasuna | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | -2 | 32 |
| 10 | Celta de Vigo | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 31 |
| 11 | Rayo Vallecano | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 27 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| 12 | Valencia | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 38 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 25 | -2 | 30 |
| 13 | Espanyol | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 19 | -5 | 28 |
| 14 | Elche | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 26 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 22 | -7 | 26 |
| 15 | Getafe | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -4 | 25 |
| 16 | Granada | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -10 | 24 |
| 17 | Mallorca | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -15 | 23 |
| 18 | Deportivo Alaves | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 39 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -20 | 20 |
| 19 | Cadiz | 24 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 20 | 38 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -18 | 19 |
| 20 | Levante | 23 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 50 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 29 | -27 | 11 |
