Athletic Club 2-1 Real Sociedad: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 23 April 2011
Result
Athletic Club 2-1 Real Sociedad
La Liga · Saturday 23 April 2011, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Athletic Club 2-1 Real Sociedad: match report
Athletic Club beat Real Sociedad 2-1 in La Liga on Saturday 23 April 2011. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Iker Muniain opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Athletic Club's goals came from Iker Muniain (17') and Toquero (29'). Real Sociedad scored through an own goal by Javi Martínez (31').
Discipline: Athletic Club received 6 yellow cards; Real Sociedad received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Athletic Club were 5th on 48 points from 32 and Real Sociedad 12th on 38 points from 32. Athletic Club went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Real Sociedad 15th with 45.
Athletic Club lined up in a 4-4-2 and Real Sociedad in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Athletic Club wins, 2 draws and 1 for Real Sociedad.
Going into the match Athletic Club's last five read W-L-W-L-D and Real Sociedad's W-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Iker Muniain
- 29'Goal · Toquero
- 31'Own goal · Javi Martínez
- 36'Yellow card · Aranburu
- 62'Yellow card · Raúl Tamudo
- 66'Yellow card · Orbaiz
- 71'Yellow card · Mikel San José
- 84'Yellow card · Carlos Gurpegi
- 84'Yellow card · Toquero
- 89'Yellow card · Fernando Amorebieta
- 90+2'Yellow card · Óscar de Marcos
Head-to-head
Team news
Athletic Club line-up (4-4-2)
Raúl Fernández, Fernando Amorebieta, Ekiza, David Lopez, Orbaiz, Javi Martínez, Muniain, Toquero, Mikel San José, Fernando Llorente, Andoni Iraola
Real Sociedad line-up (4-2-3-1)
Claudio Bravo, Carlos Martínez, Ion Ansotegi, Vadim Demidov, Daniel Estrada, Xabi Prieto, Aranburu, Zurutuza, Diego Rivas, Antoine Griezmann, Diego Ifrán Sala