Estadio Ciudad de Valencia: Levante vs Real Sociedad La Liga preview

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Sat 19.December
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Ciudad de Valencia (26354 seats)

Struggling Levante will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Real Sociedad in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Levante has the most matches under the total-line (9) in La Liga
  • Real Sociedad has the most scored goals (24) in La Liga

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Levante and Real Sociedad.

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Levante form and stats

Levante have collected 6 points from their La Liga home games so far after 1-3-1.

A good away victory last time out for Levante, who won 5-0 against Racing Murcia. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Barcelona (0-1).

As indicated by the result mentioned above, Levante played a great game against Racing Murcia and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Sergio León was absolutely essential when Levante beat Racing Murcia 5-0, scoring three goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Levante as they are travelling to their away game against Huesca in the La Liga. That match is three days after this one.

Levante has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. 5 goals have been conceded.

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Real Sociedad form and stats

Real Sociedad's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Real Sociedad, who have the most scored goals (24) in La Liga, collect 14 points from their 7 away matches in the La Liga. 4 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 1 defeat).

Real Sociedad play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Barcelona (placed 5th). Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Eibar.

A new game in only three days for Sociedad, the La Liga home match versus Atlético Madrid. Busy days.

Real Sociedad has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 7 games. It's not easy to score on Real Sociedad as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - four - four (Levante wins - draws - Real Sociedad wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Real SociedadM. Oyarzabal Ugarte
M. Oyarzabal Ugarte
7 goals
LevanteJ. Morales Nogales
J. Morales Nogales
4 goals
Real SociedadC. Portugués Manzanera
C. Portugués Manzanera
4 goals

Levante missing players

Real Sociedad missing players

Levante Real Sociedad
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
12 5 1 Played P 3 7 14
2 1 0 Won W 1 4 7
5 3 0 Drew D 2 2 5
5 1 1 Lost L 0 1 2
13 6 0 Scored S 4 13 24
16 5 2 Conceded C 1 4 8
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 86% 86%
83% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 71% 71%
25% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 57% 43%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 14%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 14%
58% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 43% 43%
8% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 57% 50%
33% 20% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 14% 21%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.7 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.8 13.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 16.7 13.3 11.9
4.3 5.4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 4.6 4.6
25% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 41% 38%
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • All of Levante's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Levante has the most matches under the total-line (9) in La Liga
  • Levante haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Real Sociedad has the most scored goals (13) away in La Liga
  • Real Sociedad has the most scored goals (24) in La Liga
  • Real Sociedad has the the best goal difference (+9) away in La Liga
  • Real Sociedad have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Real Sociedad have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Real Sociedad have scored at least twice as many goals away as Levante have scored home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlético Madrid 11 8 2 1 21 4 6 5 1 0 15 1 5 3 1 1 6 3 17 26
2 Real Sociedad 14 7 5 2 24 8 7 3 3 1 11 4 7 4 2 1 13 4 16 26
3 Real Madrid 13 8 2 3 22 13 6 4 0 2 11 5 7 4 2 1 11 8 9 26
4 Villarreal 13 5 7 1 16 12 7 4 3 0 11 5 6 1 4 1 5 7 4 22
5 Barcelona 12 6 2 4 23 12 7 5 1 1 18 7 5 1 1 3 5 5 11 20
6 Sevilla 11 6 1 4 13 9 5 3 0 2 6 4 6 3 1 2 7 5 4 19
7 Granada 12 5 3 4 15 20 6 3 2 1 10 8 6 2 1 3 5 12 -5 18
8 Cadiz 13 5 3 5 11 17 6 1 2 3 4 8 7 4 1 2 7 9 -6 18
9 Celta de Vigo 13 4 4 5 17 20 6 3 0 3 10 11 7 1 4 2 7 9 -3 16
10 Real Betis 13 5 1 7 15 24 6 2 1 3 8 10 7 3 0 4 7 14 -9 16
11 Eibar 13 3 6 4 9 10 7 0 4 3 1 5 6 3 2 1 8 5 -1 15
12 Valencia 13 3 5 5 19 19 7 2 3 2 13 11 6 1 2 3 6 8 0 14
13 Athletic Club 13 4 2 7 15 17 5 3 0 2 8 4 8 1 2 5 7 13 -2 14
14 Elche 11 3 5 3 9 11 6 1 3 2 4 7 5 2 2 1 5 4 -2 14
15 Deportivo Alaves 13 3 5 5 11 14 7 1 4 2 4 6 6 2 1 3 7 8 -3 14
16 Getafe 12 3 4 5 9 14 7 3 1 3 7 6 5 0 3 2 2 8 -5 13
17 Real Valladolid 13 3 4 6 14 20 7 2 3 2 9 10 6 1 1 4 5 10 -6 13
18 Levante 12 2 5 5 13 16 5 1 3 1 6 5 7 1 2 4 7 11 -3 11
19 Huesca 13 1 8 4 12 20 6 1 3 2 4 6 7 0 5 2 8 14 -8 11
20 Osasuna 12 3 2 7 10 18 6 2 1 3 6 9 6 1 1 4 4 9 -8 11

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La Liga is the top professional level of the Spanish football league system. Is is often referred to as the Primera División and is considered one of the absolute top leagues of Europe and the world. 20 teams play 380 fixtures from August to May to create a final league table.