Almeria vs Real Sociedad Preview

Match info:

Almeria vs Real Sociedad

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – Estadio del Mediterráneo

Date: 24th March

Kick-off time – 21:00 GMT+1

6th position Real Sociedad travel to the Estadio del Mediterráneo this Monday evening to face 19th place Almeria in the Spanish Primera Liga.


Recent form:

Almeria have won 1 of their last 7 while Sociedad have lost just 2 of their last 7.

Form

The Spanish Primera table 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 Almeria will move them out of the relegation zone.

A win for Real Sociedad will move them into 5th place.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 5 times in recent years and nothing separates them.

History

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

Possible line-ups

Almeria  (4-2-3-1)

Esteban
Dubarbier
Torsiglieri
Trujillo
Rafita
Azeez
Verza
Vidal
Soriano
Suso
Rodri

Real Sociedad (4-4-1-1)

Bravo
Ángel
Martínez
González
Zaldúa
Griezmann
Zurutuza
Bergara
Vela
Canales
Agirretxe

Bookmakers make Real Sociedad favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Almeria (12/5) Draw (12/5) Sociedad (11/10)Gamingtips Prediction – Almeria 1:2 Sociedad 

Almerica come into this tie desperate for a win as games are slowly running out in the Spanish Primera.  A win will move them out of the relegation zone and give them great confidence for their next match against Valencia at home.

Real Sociedad have their eyes set on a guaranteed Europa League spot and a win will move them ahead of 5th position Sevilla and to within 6 points off a Champions League placing.

Almeria’s biggest problem is scoring goals – they have scored just 27 goals in 28 games and conceded 52.

Real Sociedad have scored 49 goals in 28 games and conceded 39.

Real Sociedad have the 2nd worst defensive record in the top half of the Spanish Primera and this gives Almeria an outside chance of causing an upset however they will need to improve upon their 1 goal per game average if they are to keep up with a side who score almost 2 goals per game on average.

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