📏 Form Guide

Real Sociedad

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Real Sociedad will be looking for an improved result here after a 4-0 La Liga defeat last time out to Atlético Madrid.

In that match, Real Sociedad managed 39% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Atletico Madrid got 13 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Alexander Sørloth (7', 10', 11', 30') was the scorer for Atlético Madrid.

It’s not been often in recent games that Real Sociedad have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Real Sociedad have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals on the way.

Coming into this meeting, Real Sociedad haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Celta Vigo

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Celta Vigo will come into the match after a 3-2 La Liga win to beat Sevilla in their previous fixture.

In that match, Celta Vigo managed 50% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Celta Vigo, the goals were scored by Ilaix Moriba (19'), Óscar Mingueza (65') and Borja Iglesias (91'). For their opponents, Sevilla had 19 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. Nemanja Gudelj (45') and Kike Salas (98') scored for Sevilla.

Illustrating their partiality to productive matches, goals have been seen as many as 25 times in the last six matches in which Celta Vigo have taken to the field, giving a mean average of 4.17 goals per clash. Opposition teams have got 12 from this total. Previous results aside, it remains to be seen whether that pattern will be maintained in this upcoming game.

Taking a look at their past results, Celta Vigo:

• are winless against Real Sociedad when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. Not good.
• remain undefeated by Real Sociedad when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 16/10/2022 tells us that Real Sociedad have won 3 of these games & Celta Vigo 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

In all, 13 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 of them from Txuri-urdin and 6 being from Os Celestes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league contest between the two was La Liga match day 18 on 21/12/2024 when it finished Celta Vigo 2-0 Real Sociedad.

On that occasion, Celta Vigo managed 41% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Their only player to score was Pablo Durán (40', 45').

At the other end, Real Sociedad got 7 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Mateo Busquets Ferrer.

📋 Team News: Real Sociedad

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just one fitness concern for the Real Sociedad gaffer Imanol Alguacil to be concerned with due to a largely intact set of players. Arsen Zakharyan (Muscle injury) misses out.

It seems likely that Txuri-urdin could kick off with a 4-1-4-1 system this time and select Alex Remiro, Hamari Traore, Igor Zubeldia, Jon Martin, Aihen Munoz, Martin Zubimendi, Takefusa Kubo, Brais Mendez, Pablo Marin, Sergio Gomez and Mikel Oyarzabal.

📰 Team News: Celta Vigo

We believe Os Celestes seem likely to utilise a 3-4-2-1 lineup using Vicente Guaita, Javi Rodriguez, Yoel Lago, Carlos Dominguez, Sergio Carreira, Fran Beltran, Ilaix Moriba, Oscar Mingueza, Fer Lopez, Alfon Gonzalez and Borja Iglesias.

💭 Prediction

In this match, Celta Vigo have enough to breach the defence of this Real Sociedad lineup, however it might not be enough to prevent defeat.

We think that it’s going to be a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Real Sociedad when all is said and done. It really should be an interesting one.

Victor Martins, 17:08 13/05/2025