Real Sociedad 3-0 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 22 February 2020
Result
Real Sociedad 3-0 Valencia
La Liga · Saturday 22 February 2020, 17:30 UTC · half-time 2-0
Real Sociedad 3-0 Valencia: match report
Real Sociedad defeated Valencia 3-0 in La Liga on Saturday 22 February 2020. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Mikel Merino opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Real Sociedad's goals came from Mikel Merino (12'), Nacho Monreal (45+1') and Adnan Januzaj (48'). Valencia did not score.
Discipline: Real Sociedad received 1 yellow card; Valencia received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Real Sociedad were 8th on 37 points from 23 and Valencia 7th on 38 points from 24. Real Sociedad went on to finish that season 6th with 56 points, and Valencia 9th with 53.
Real Sociedad lined up in a 4-3-3 and Valencia in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nacho Monreal of Real Sociedad (8.2), ahead of Aritz Elustondo (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Real Sociedad wins, 2 draws and 4 for Valencia.
Going into the match Real Sociedad's last five read W-L-W-L-L and Valencia's D-L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Mikel Merino
- 38'Yellow card · Mikel Merino
- 45+1'Goal · Nacho Monreal
- 48'Goal · Adnan Januzaj
- 88'Yellow card · Jaume Costa
Head-to-head
Team news
Real Sociedad line-up (4-3-3)
Álex Remiro, Joseba Zaldúa, Aritz Elustondo, Robin Le Normand, Nacho Monreal, Martin Ødegaard, Igor Zubeldia, Mikel Merino, Adnan Januzaj, Alexander Isak, Mikel Oyarzabal
Valencia line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jaume Doménech, Daniel Wass, Mouctar Diakhaby, Eliaquim Mangala, Jaume Costa, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Dani Parejo, Ferran Torres, Carlos Soler, Denis Cheryshev, Kévin Gameiro