Real Sociedad 3-1 Sevilla: result and report
La Liga · Wednesday 20 December 2017
Result
Real Sociedad 3-1 Sevilla
La Liga · Wednesday 20 December 2017, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Real Sociedad 3-1 Sevilla: match report
Real Sociedad beat Sevilla 3-1 in La Liga on Wednesday 20 December 2017. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Iñigo Martínez opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Real Sociedad's goals came from Iñigo Martínez (17'), Igor Zubeldia (76') and Carlos Vela (90'). Sevilla scored through Wissam Ben Yedder (44').
Discipline: Real Sociedad received 1 yellow card; Sevilla received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Real Sociedad were 12th on 20 points from 16 and Sevilla 5th on 29 points from 16. Real Sociedad went on to finish that season 11th with 49 points, and Sevilla 7th with 58.
Real Sociedad lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sevilla in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Iñigo Martínez of Real Sociedad (8.4), ahead of Carlos Vela (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Real Sociedad wins, 2 draws and 3 for Sevilla.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Iñigo Martínez
- 39'Yellow card · Wissam Ben Yedder
- 44'Goal · Wissam Ben Yedder
- 51'Yellow card · Guido Pizarro
- 57'Yellow card · Sébastien Corchia
- 68'Yellow card · Raúl Navas
- 76'Goal · Igor Zubeldia
- 86'Yellow card · Franco Vázquez
- 87'Yellow card · Simon Kjaer
- 90'Goal · Carlos Vela
Head-to-head
Team news
Real Sociedad line-up (4-3-3)
Gerónimo Rulli, Diego Llorente, Iñigo Martínez, Álvaro Odriozola, Raúl Navas, Asier Illarramendi, Xabi Prieto, Zurutuza, Adnan Januzaj, Willian José, Sergio Canales
Sevilla line-up (4-2-3-1)
David Soria, Sébastien Corchia, Simon Kjær, Johannes Geis, Sergio Escudero, Michael Krohn-Dehli, Éver Banega, Guido Pizarro, Pablo Sarabia, Ganso, Wissam Ben Yedder