Real Sociedad will soon host defending champions Barcelona, in the fourth season of La Liga on Saturday night (15/9). Although it looked very easy for Barcelona, Barca lost a point when they first met Real Sociedad at the start of the season at Anoeta.
In the last eight visits, Barcelona only won once and twice with a draw, while five times they were forced to lose.
While Real Sociedad are currently playing very well at home. Asier Illarramendi cs managed to win seven times in eight matches in their home.
Even so the rotation plan was even posted by Barca coach Ernesto Valverde, considering that many of the pillars were still exhausted after the last international break. He is also grateful for the main star, Lionel Messi, to be one of the players who were not busy in the national team yesterday.
"We have other matches every three days. So some players will have a number of fitness problems, so yes, I might spin in the composition of the players. Messi? Of course that is a big advantage because he [Messi] took a break last week," Valverde said. as quoted by Marca.
Messi's chaos is clearly very important for Barca. Especially against Sociedad, La Pulga has a good record by collecting 11 goals from the last 13 meetings. It will be a slick stimulus for coatings that are predicted to come down, such as Malcom and Artur Melo, appearing positive.
Barca remain regarded as the seed to win in this match. But the history of Anoeta plus the brilliant performance of the Sociedad home, should not surprise us if Los Cules failed to bring home three points.
Formation Forecast
Real Sociedad (4-3-3): Rulli - Zaldua - Elustondo - Moreno - Hernandez - Merino - Illarramendi - Zubeldia - Oyarzabal - Bautista - uanmi.
Barcelona (4-3-3): Stegen - Semedo - Pique - Umtiti - Alba - Arthur - Busquets - Vidal - Messi - Suarez - Malcom.
Important things you need to know about the two teams
- Sociedad only won one of the last seven meetings with Barca in La Liga. The other six matches ended with one draw and five defeats.
- Barca have won only once in the last eight visits to Sociedad headquarters, Anoeta. The other seven matches ended with two draws and five defeats.
- Sociedad won seven of their eight home matches in La Liga. Only lost once, they scored an average of 3.1 goals in that period.
- Barca striker Suarez scored seven goals in his seven meetings with Sociedad.
- Barca only suffered an away defeat in La Liga during Ernesto Valverde's treatment (13 wins, six draws).
Goal Prediction: Real Sociedad 1-1 Barcelona
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