Valencia vs Real Sociedad Match Preview: Spanish Primera Liga

Match info:

Valencia vs Real Sociedad

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – Mestalla

Date: 19th October 2013

Kick-off time – 17:00 GMT+1

7th place Valencia host 15th position Real Sociedad at the Mestalla this Saturday evening in the Spanish Primera.


Recent form:

Valencia – D W W W W L L

Real Sociedad – L L D L D L D

Valencia have won 4 of their last 7 while Real Sociedad haven’t won in 8.

Form

The Spanish Primera Table currently looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Barcelona 13 11 0 2 40 12 +28 33
2 Real Madrid 12 8 3 1 25 11 +14 27
3 Atlético de Madrid 13 7 5 1 19 7 +12 26
4 Villarreal 12 7 3 2 23 19 +4 24
5 Osasuna 13 6 3 4 17 20 -3 21
6 Athletic Bilbao 13 5 5 3 19 13 +6 20
7 Real Betis 13 5 5 3 14 12 +2 20
8 Real Sociedad 13 5 3 5 11 10 +1 18
9 Mallorca 13 5 3 5 10 10 +0 18
10 Girona 13 5 3 5 16 17 -1 18
11 Celta Vigo 13 5 2 6 20 22 -2 17
12 Rayo Vallecano 12 4 4 4 13 13 +0 16
13 Sevilla 13 4 3 6 12 18 -6 15
14 Leganes 13 3 5 5 13 16 -3 14
15 Alaves 13 4 1 8 14 22 -8 13
16 Las Palmas 13 3 3 7 16 22 -6 12
17 Getafe 13 1 7 5 8 11 -3 10
18 Espanyol 12 3 1 8 11 22 -11 10
19 Real Valladolid 13 2 3 8 10 25 -15 9
20 Valencia 11 1 4 6 8 17 -9 7

A win for Valencia could move them to 5th depending on results elsewhere while a win for Sociedad could move them as high as 9th place.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 34 times in recent years and Valencia have come out on top most often (Valencia 15 wins, Real Sociedad 8 wins, 11 draws). 

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 2:4, 2:5, 0:1, 0:1 and 3:0.

Possible line-ups

Valencia

Guaita
Barragán
Costa
Mathieu
Banega
Fuego
Guardado
Feghouli
Pabón
Jonas
Alcácer

Real Sociedad

Bravo
Díez
Martínez
Ansotegui
De la Bella
Urkiola
Bergara
Zurutuza
Griezmann
Agirretxe
Vela

Bookmakers make Valencia odds-on favourites for this game.

Odds: Valencia (8/11) Draw (5/2) Sociedad (4/1)Gamingtips Prediction – Valencia 2:2 Sociedad

Just 1 point separated these two sides in the Spanish Primera last season.

Valencia finished 5th with 65 points – they scored 67 goals in 38 matches and conceded 54.

Real Sociedad finished 4th with 66 points – they scored 70 goals in 38 games and conceded 49.

Although Real Sociedad have not won in 8 games, they have dominated Valencia in recent years (won the last 4 meetings at the Mestalla).

Valencia are unbeaten in 5 in all competitions and they will be looking to cement their place in the top 6 of the Spanish Primera.

From a betting perspective, over 2.5 goals at odds of 8/11 offers more value than backing Valencia to win this match outright given how close both teams finished last season and how many goals they scored and conceded.

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