Real Sociedad 5-1 Sporting Gijón: result and report

La Liga · Sunday 29 January 2012

Result

Real Sociedad 5-1 Sporting Gijón

La Liga · Sunday 29 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Real Sociedad 5-1 Sporting Gijón: match report

Real Sociedad won against Sporting Gijón 5-1 in La Liga on Sunday 29 January 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Zurutuza opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Real Sociedad's goals came from Zurutuza (2'), Zurutuza (3'), Gorka Elustondo (75'), Aranburu (90+2') and Antoine Griezmann (90+3'). Sporting Gijón scored through De las Cuevas (46').

Discipline: Real Sociedad received no yellow cards; Sporting Gijón received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Real Sociedad were 16th on 21 points from 19 and Sporting Gijón 19th on 18 points from 19. Real Sociedad went on to finish that season 11th with 47 points, and Sporting Gijón 19th with 37.

Real Sociedad lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sporting Gijón in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Real Sociedad wins, 0 draws and 0 for Sporting Gijón.

Going into the match Real Sociedad's last five read L-W-D-D-D and Sporting Gijón's L-W-L-L-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · ZurutuzaReal Sociedad · 1-0
  • 3'Goal · ZurutuzaReal Sociedad · 2-0
  • 32'Yellow card · RiveraSporting Gijón
  • 46'Goal · De las CuevasSporting Gijón · 2-1
  • 52'Yellow card · CarmeloSporting Gijón
  • 56'Yellow card · BotíaSporting Gijón
  • 69'Yellow card · Alejandro GálvezSporting Gijón
  • 75'Goal · Gorka ElustondoReal Sociedad · 3-1
  • 90+2'Goal · AranburuReal Sociedad · 4-1
  • 90+3'Goal · Antoine GriezmannReal Sociedad · 5-1

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Real Sociedad 3, draws 0, Sporting Gijón 0.

Team news

Real Sociedad line-up (4-2-3-1)

Claudio Bravo, Carlos Martínez, Dejan Stanković, Iñigo Martínez, Daniel Estrada, Gorka Elustondo, Aranburu, Zurutuza, Antoine Griezmann, Imanol Agirretxe, Carlos Vela

Sporting Gijón line-up (4-2-3-1)

Juan Pablo, Roberto Canella, Damián Suárez, Alejandro Gálvez, Rivera, Carmelo, Grégory Arnolin, Nacho Cases, Oscar Trejo, Mate Bilic, Miguel de las Cuevas