H2H: Granada CF vs. Real Sociedad – Prediction (La Liga

Preview and Teams Comparison.

Granada have only won one of their last 10 LaLiga games against Real Sociedad (W1 D5 L5) – 3-0 in May 2015 in San Sebastián. They’ve suffered defeats in each of the most recent four.

A 1-0 victory over Real Betis in Granada’s last La Liga (LL) home game gave the high-flyers a third consecutive 1-0 home victory, and fourth home win ‘to nil’ – three of which saw Granada net a first-half opener. With a league-best 0.2 goals conceded on average per home game, Granada will now look to end a four-game losing streak against Real Sociedad. Antonio Puertas has been Granada’s first goalscorer in three of the four league games he’s found the net. However a 3-1 defeat at Getafe midweek was their second loss in four games (W2, L2), both of which arrived by a two-goal margin. With that result, Granada remain winless when conceding first this LL season (D2, L3), but have won all six games when they’ve netted the opener.

There’s been an average of 8.6 yellow cards per fixture across Granada’s last five LL home games. Eight of the last nine H2Hs featured at least one goal in the final half-hour. The opener has been scored by the 20th minute in three of Sociedad’s last four LL away games.

Sociedad picked up a 1-0 victory in their last LL away game, and top the away form table ahead of this round, despite netting just 1.33 goals on average per road trip. Three of their last four LL away wins have now arrived via a 1-0 scoreline. Willian José (SOC) scored last time out – four of his five LL goals this term came before half-time. Trailing at half-time just once on the road this league campaign (HT: W1, D4, L1), Sociedad will look to start strongly considering they’ve won three of the four LL away games in which they netted the opener (L1). However they often finish strongly too, and have scored four of their eight away league goals after the 75th minute.