Real Sociedad 1-3 Villarreal: result and report

La Liga · Friday 23 February 2024

Result

Real Sociedad 1-3 Villarreal

La Liga · Friday 23 February 2024, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Real Sociedad · Villarreal · La Liga predictions

Real Sociedad 1-3 Villarreal: match report

Real Sociedad lost to Villarreal 1-3 in La Liga on Friday 23 February 2024. The half-time score was 0-1.

Santi Comesaña opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Real Sociedad's goal came from Mikel Merino (86'). Villarreal scored through Santi Comesaña (17'), Santi Comesaña (47') and Alexander Sørloth (90+5').

Discipline: Real Sociedad received 3 yellow cards; Villarreal received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Real Sociedad were 6th on 40 points from 25 and Villarreal 13th on 26 points from 25. Real Sociedad went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Villarreal 8th with 53.

Real Sociedad lined up in a 4-4-2 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Santi Comesaña of Villarreal (8.8), ahead of Brais Méndez (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Real Sociedad wins, 2 draws and 4 for Villarreal.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Santi ComesañaVillarreal · 0-1
  • 47'Goal · Santi ComesañaVillarreal · 0-2
  • 51'Yellow card · Robin Le NormandReal Sociedad
  • 60'Yellow card · Filip JörgensenVillarreal
  • 62'Yellow card · Yerson MosqueraVillarreal
  • 62'Yellow card · André SilvaReal Sociedad
  • 63'Yellow card · Raúl AlbiolVillarreal
  • 69'Yellow card · Arsen ZakharyanReal Sociedad
  • 86'Goal · Mikel MerinoReal Sociedad · 1-2
  • 88'Yellow card · Jorge CuencaVillarreal
  • 90+5'Goal · Alexander SørlothVillarreal · 1-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Real Sociedad 4, draws 2, Villarreal 4.

Team news

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

Álex Remiro, Hamari Traoré, Robin Le Normand, Jon Pacheco, Javi Galán, Martín Zubimendi, Takefusa Kubo, Brais Méndez, Arsen Zakharyan, Ander Barrenetxea, André Silva

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Filip Jørgensen, Yerson Mosquera, Raúl Albiol, Eric Bailly, Alberto Moreno, Ilias Akhomach, Francis Coquelin, Santi Comesaña, Álex Baena, Gonçalo Guedes, Gerard Moreno