Real Sociedad vs Barcelona 21.08.2022

In one of this weekend’s exciting La Liga fixtures, Real Sociedad lock horns against Barcelona. For Xavi’s men, they will be in the hunt for their first 3 points of the season having been held to a barren draw in their opening fixture against Rayo Vallecano. Despite their financial woes, Barca were able to procure key signings this window, indicating their readiness to wrestle the title from 35-time winners Real Madrid.

For Real Sociedad, they will be looking to make it back-to-back wins following their opening day victory over Cadiz. However, they face a daunting task in this tie as they are without a win in their last 8 games against Barcelona. In fact, the only point they earned in one of those 8 games came back in December 2019.

With Barca’s reinforcement this summer and overall dominance of past fixtures, it is hard to picture Sociedad getting anything here. To this end, we are backing Xavi’s men to score at least two goals in this game

Main tip: Barcelona Over 1.5 Goals (go to tip details)

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Head-to-Head stats Real Sociedad vs Barcelona

We look at the last 45 matches between these teams:

• Real Sociedad have 6 wins. Barcelona 31 wins. 8 matches were drawn
• On average, these matches scored 3.11 goals per match
• The last time they met, Barcelona won 1-0

Latest results Real Sociedad

• 3 wins and 2 losses in their last 5 matches
• Just 4 goals were scored in the last 5 matches. Average 0.8 goals per match
• They beat Cadiz 1-0 in their last match

Latest results Barcelona

• 3 wins and 2 draws in their last 5 matches
• 11 goals were scored in their last 5 matches. Average 2.20 goals per match
• In their last match, they drew 0-0 against Rayo Vallecano

La Liga Table Standings and Latest Results

Real Sociedad: rank 6th – 1 match – 1 win – 0 draw – 0 losses – 3 points
Form Guide (most recent first): W-L-L-W-W

Barcelona: rank 11th – 1 match – 0 win – 1 draw – 0 losses – 1 point
Form Guide (most recent first): D-W-W-D-W

Possible squad Real Sociedad

Real Sociedad: Remiro; Gorosabel, Zubeldia, Le Normand, Rico; Merino, Zubimendi, Alcântara; Oyarzabal; Sørloth, Isak

Out: None

Coach: Imanol Alguacil

Possible squad Barcelona

Barcelona: ter Stegen; Roberto, Araújo, García, Balde; Gavi, Busquets, Pedri; Dembélé, Lewandowski, Raphinha

Out: Busquet (Red Card)

Coach: Xavi Hernandez

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Our tip(s) and odds in detail

According to the statistics above and the odds of the bookmakers, we suggest the following:

1) Bet on Barcelona Over 1.5 Goals

BC.Game offers competitive odds for the bet “Barca Over 1.5 Goals”
The odd of 1.92 means that the bookmakers are calculating with a likelihood of approx. 52% chance that Barca will score at least 2 goals in this match.

Odds for Barcelona Over 1.5 Goals

BC.Game – odd 1.92
Mozzartbet – odd 1.91

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2) Bet on DC X2 & BTTS

• 4 of their last 5 meetings ended with both sides scoring
• 2 of Barca’s last 3 visits to Sociedad produced goals from both teams

Betwinner offers competitive odds for the bet “DC X2 & BTTS”
The odd of 2.00 means that the bookmakers are calculating with a likelihood of approx. 50% chance that Barcelona will win or draw with both sides scoring.

Odds comparison for DC X2 & BTTS

Betwinner – odd 2.00
Betway – odd 2.00

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