Real Sociedad 1-1 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Monday 23 October 2017
Result
Real Sociedad 1-1 Espanyol
La Liga · Monday 23 October 2017, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Real Sociedad 1-1 Espanyol: match report
Real Sociedad drew with Espanyol 1-1 in La Liga on Monday 23 October 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Léo Baptistão opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Real Sociedad's goal came from Jiri Malik (69'). Espanyol scored through Léo Baptistão (9').
Discipline: Real Sociedad received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Espanyol received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Real Sociedad were 9th on 13 points from 8 and Espanyol 14th on 9 points from 8. Real Sociedad went on to finish that season 11th with 49 points, and Espanyol 13th with 49.
Real Sociedad lined up in a 4-3-3 and Espanyol in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Asier Illarramendi of Real Sociedad (8.5), ahead of Adnan Januzaj (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Real Sociedad wins, 2 draws and 3 for Espanyol.
Going into the match Real Sociedad's last five read W-D-L-L-L and Espanyol's D-L-W-D-W.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Léo Baptistão
- 44'Yellow card · José Jurado
- 64'Yellow card · Sergi Darder
- 64'Yellow card · David López
- 69'Goal · Jiri Malik
- 74'Yellow card · Kévin Rodrigues
- 81'Yellow card · Aarón Martín
- 86'Yellow card · Mikel Oyarzabal
- 87'Yellow card · Jiri Malik
- 90+2'Second yellow · Jiri Malik
- 90+3'Yellow card · Gerónimo Rulli
Head-to-head
Team news
Real Sociedad line-up (4-3-3)
Gerónimo Rulli, Diego Llorente, Iñigo Martínez, Álvaro Odriozola, Kévin Rodrigues, Asier Illarramendi, Igor Zubeldia, Xabi Prieto, Carlos Vela, Willian José, Mikel Oyarzabal
Espanyol line-up (4-4-2)
Pau López, Aarón Martín, Víctor Sánchez, David López, Mario Hermoso, José Jurado, Javi Fuego, Pablo Piatti, Sergi Darder, Gerard Moreno, Léo Baptistão