Valencia 2-5 Real Sociedad: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 1 December 2012
Result
Valencia 2-5 Real Sociedad
La Liga · Saturday 1 December 2012, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Valencia 2-5 Real Sociedad: match report
Valencia were beaten by Real Sociedad 2-5 in La Liga on Saturday 1 December 2012. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Andrzej Olszewski opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Valencia's goals came from Andrzej Olszewski (2') and Andrzej Olszewski (73'). Real Sociedad scored through Alberto de la Bella (44'), Mikel González (57'), Diego Ifrán Sala (64'), Agirretxe (83') and Carlos Vela (90+1', penalty).
Discipline: Valencia received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Real Sociedad received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valencia were 11th on 18 points from 13 and Real Sociedad 12th on 17 points from 13. Valencia went on to finish that season 5th with 66 points, and Real Sociedad 4th with 70.
Valencia lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Real Sociedad in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Carlos Vela of Real Sociedad (8.9), ahead of Roberto Soldado Rillo (8.5).
Key events
- 2'Goal · Andrzej Olszewski
- 17'Yellow card · Víctor Ruiz
- 34'Yellow card · Carlos Martínez
- 41'Red card · Jonas
- 44'Goal · Alberto de la Bella
- 57'Goal · Mikel González
- 64'Goal · Diego Ifrán Sala
- 67'Yellow card · Carlos Vela
- 73'Goal · Andrzej Olszewski
- 77'Yellow card · É. Banega
- 83'Goal · Agirretxe
- 90+1'Penalty goal · Carlos Vela
Head-to-head
Team news
Valencia line-up (4-2-3-1)
Diego Alves, Aly Cissokho, João Pereira, Víctor Ruiz, Ricardo Costa, Fernando Rubén Gago, Jonas, Sofiane Feghouli, Éver Banega, Juan Bernat, Roberto Soldado Rillo
Real Sociedad line-up (4-2-3-1)
Claudio Bravo, Carlos Martínez, Dejan Stanković, Iñigo Martínez, Alberto de la Bella, Antoine Griezmann, Xabi Prieto, Carlos Vela, Rubén Pardo, Zurutuza, Diego Ifrán Sala