The table reveals that 11 points separate the two combatants in this La Liga fixture. Real Sociedad own both the points- and home advantage.
- Real Sociedad have the most clean sheets (8) in La Liga
- Valencia have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in La Liga
This promises to be an engrossing game with lots of spark and energy as both contenders are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!
Real Sociedad form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Reale Arena as Real Sociedad have scored 5 goals to get 14 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the La Liga are 4-2-0 (wins-draws-losses). Sociedad haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Barcelona, 98 days ago.
It's back home for Sociedad, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Osasuna away with the result 2-0. Adnan Januzaj and Mikel Merino found the net in that victory. The striker Adnan Januzaj was declared "man of the match" for Sociedad with the rating of 8.04/10. Januzaj scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 40 successful passes (of 47 total).
In the match before that, Sociedad hosted Sturm Graz and drew the Europa League game 1-1.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sociedad handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, three draws and one defeat.
There will be little rest for Sociedad after this match as they are travelling to Monaco for a Europa League game in only four days.
Sociedad aren't scoring a lot here at Reale Arena in the league, with only 5 goals from 6 games. As for guarding their own goal, Sociedad have only let in 1 goal at home.
Valencia form and stats
Valencia have only collected 5 points from their away games in the La Liga, after 1-2-3 (6 played). Valencia seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
Valencia's last game was the home draw against Atletico Madrid (3-3). Valencia's last match (vs Atletico Madrid) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 1-3. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 90th minute equalizer by Hugo Duro. As you can tell from the result, the match against Atletico Madrid was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Bringing on Hugo Duro was absolutely vital to the comeback against Atletico Madrid as the player changed the game with two goals and ensuring the draw 3-3. The attacker Gonçalo Guedes got a match rating of 8.1 in that game. Guedes served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 5 of 9 times.
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Villarreal.Valencia 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, one draw and four defeats. From a total of five matches.
Valencia are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 6 games (in the league). Valencia have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings with these participants: Sociedad won three, Valencia triumphed in four and we saw three draws. six games with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Oyarzabal Ugarte 6 goals |   C. Soler Barragán 4 goals |  H. Duro Perales 4 goals |
Real Sociedad missing players
Valencia missing players
| Real Sociedad | Valencia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 19 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 7 | 12 | 20 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 62% | 17% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 85% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 46% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | 23% |
| 38% | 17% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 69% |
| 62% | 83% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 31% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 4.3 | 3.7 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| 4.2 | 4.3 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 2.3 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11.2 | 10.3 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 12.5 | 11.8 |
| 4.4 | 4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| 33% | 21% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 32% | 40% |
| 9.5 | 8 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 10 | 12 |
| 3.2 | 2.5 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 4.3 | 4.6 |
- Real Sociedad have not yet lost a game at home.
- Real Sociedad have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Real Sociedad have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in La Liga
- Real Sociedad have the most clean sheets (5) at home in La Liga
- Real Sociedad have the most clean sheets (8) in La Liga
- Valencia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Valencia have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in La Liga
| 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 Sociedad | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 28 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 27 |
| 3 | Sevilla | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 27 |
| 4 | Atletico Madrid | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Real Betis | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| 6 | Rayo Vallecano | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 20 |
| 7 | Osasuna | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | -3 | 19 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| 9 | Barcelona | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 10 | Valencia | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 17 |
| 11 | Espanyol | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 17 |
| 12 | Villarreal | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 13 | Mallorca | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 15 |
| 14 | Deportivo Alaves | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 13 |
| 15 | Celta de Vigo | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -4 | 12 |
| 16 | Cádiz | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -7 | 12 |
| 17 | Granada | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 11 |
| 18 | Elche | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 11 |
| 19 | Levante | 13 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -13 | 6 |
| 20 | Getafe | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -13 | 6 |