Valencia vs Real Sociedad - prediction, team news, lineups

Real Sociedad volition beryllium aiming to debar a 3rd successive decision erstwhile they resume their la Liga run against Valencia astatine Mestalla connected Sunday night.

The visitors are presently 12th successful the La Liga table, picking up 7 points from six matches, portion Valencia are 18th successful the division, claiming 4 points from six games.

Match preview

Valencia person a grounds of 1 win, 1 gully and 4 defeats from their six La Liga matches this season, with 4 points leaving them successful 18th spot successful the division, and determination is nary question that it has been an underwhelming commencement to the campaign.

Los Che volition participate this lucifer disconnected the backmost of a victory, though, beating Alaves 1-0, with Luis Rioja coming disconnected the seat to people the winner.

Valencia had been connected a four-game losing tally against Real Betis, Deportivo La Coruna, Barcelona and Sevilla earlier picking up each 3 points past clip out.

The six-time La Liga champions finished ninth successful Spain's apical formation past term, but it could perchance beryllium a investigating run for the nine successful 2026-27.

Valencia pb the wide head-to-head grounds against Real Sociedad, having triumphed successful 68 of their 162 matches to the Basque side's 53, portion determination person besides been 41 draws.

The past gathering betwixt the 2 sides came successful May 2026, with Valencia signaling a 4-3 victory, but it was 1-1 erstwhile the brace locked horns astatine Mestalla past term.

Real Sociedad volition participate this lucifer disconnected the backmost of a 2-1 location decision to Bournemouth successful the Europa League, portion they mislaid 3-0 to Atletico Madrid successful La Liga past weekend, truthful it has been a hard past week for the Basque outfit.

Pellegrino Matarazzo's broadside person a grounds of 2 wins, 1 gully and 3 defeats from their six La Liga matches this season, with 7 points leaving them 12th successful the division.

La Real person won 2 of their past 4 league matches and person mislaid conscionable once, but determination is unit connected them successful this lucifer owed to their caller 2 defeats.

Real Sociedad had a disappointing 2025-26 campaign, finishing down successful 10th spot successful the division, but they won past season's Copa del Rey rubric to unafraid Europa League qualification.

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Team News

Valencia person a lengthy wounded database astatine this infinitesimal successful time, with Diego Lopez, Mouctar Diakhaby, Umar Sadiq, Cesar Tarrega, Dimitri Foulquier, Jose Copete and Sergi Canos each unavailable.

Rioja scored the victor disconnected the seat against Alaves and is present expected to travel into the side, astir apt successful a wide area.

Hugo Duro should proceed done the mediate for Los Che, with Arnaut Danjuma acceptable to diagnostic down the left.

As for Real Sociedad, Alvaro Odriozola remains a semipermanent absentee owed to a superior genu injury, portion Igor Zubeldia is apt to miss a 3rd consecutive crippled owed to a fittingness issue.

There volition beryllium changes to the broadside that took to the tract for the archetypal whistle against Bournemouth, with Goncalo Guedes, Luka Sucic, Carlos Soler and Alex Remiro among those acceptable to beryllium introduced backmost into the squad connected Sunday.

Mikel Oyarzabal, who helped Spain triumph the 2026 World Cup, is yet to people crossed 7 appearances successful each competitions this season, but helium volition again commencement done the middle.

Valencia imaginable starting lineup:

Dimitrievski; Maffeo, Pepelu, De Haas, Gaya; Mayol, Rodriguez; Rioja, Guerra, Danjuma; Duro

Real Sociedad imaginable starting lineup:

Remiro; Aramburu, Beitia, Sarr, Gomez; Herrera, Soler; Barrenetxea, Sucic, Guedes; Oyarzabal

We say: Valencia 2-2 Real Sociedad

It is hard to backmost either broadside with immoderate existent assurance connected Sunday. There has lone been 1 stalemate successful the past 7 meetings betwixt the 2 teams, but we are expecting an entertaining gully this weekend.

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