Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:00 BARCELONA TIME Reale Arena (ANOETA) PREVIOUS MEETINGS SLL 20-04-2019 FT Barcelona 2 : 1 Real Sociedad SLL 15-09-2018 FT Real Sociedad 1 : 2 Barcelona SLL 20-05-2018 FT Barcelona 1 : 0 Real Sociedad SLL 14-01-2018 FT Real Sociedad 2 : 4 Barcelona SLL 15-04-2017 FT Barcelona 3 : 2 Real Sociedad SCdR 26-01-2017 FT Barcelona 5 : 2 Real Sociedad . VISCAELBARCA
This is a tough away fixture. Hope our guys come out strong and don't get distracted thinking about the Clasico.
Definitely a tough away fixture. I don't think we will overlook it with Clasico looming. Love that we are playing 29 hours before Real play away at Valencia. If we can win at Anoeta that puts pressure on them to do the same at Valencia. Also, I believe that Casemiro is on 4 yellow cards, so do they play him at Valencia or save him for Clasico? For Barca I think that Pique, Roberto, and most recently Busquets have all served suspensions for YC accumulation and no one is on 4 YCs, Lenglet has 3 and Pique has 8 which is the same as 3. Also we just rested almost all of our starters in the Inter match, even those likely starters who played got some rest (Griezmann spelled by Suarez, Rakitic spelled by de Jong), save for Lenglet. Semedo and Alba flew with the team to San Sebastian and are part of the 19 man squad (to be trimmed to 18): MISSING - long term - Dembele, ??? term Arthur; injured or coaches decision Junior Firpo and Wague. Happily not missing after impressing vs. Inter: Alena, Todibo, Perez, and Fati (not saying they will play but at least in the squad and hopefully getting more minutes sooner than later).
If there is one thing EV has done well, it's get a W at Anoeta. In that respect, he is > than Pep, Lucho, Tito. At Anoeta while they all drop points, EV is el puto jefe, el puto amo.
I've always thought the games with the same time as Premier League have been Ligas way of hiding referee bias, or have them to be more biased towards Barca in these games. So I went to check red card odds, and Barca actually has lower red card return compared to Sociedad, the team that is 3 to 1 favorite to win is more likely to get a red card. I mean even they acknowledge this.
----Griezmann-----Suarez-----Messi----- -------------DeJong---------Rakitic----------- Alba----------------Busquets----------Roberto ------------Lenglet-----------Pique-------------- ----------------------TerStegen------------------
Busquets conceded a 12' penalty that Sociedad scored. It is 1-0. GRIEZMANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1-1!!!!!!! 38'
Annoying penalty to concede by Busquets. I mean, was the excessive shirt-pulling really necessary? I hate conceding needless penalties like that, and from an experienced player like Busquets no less.
I still feel we need a midfielder in the mold of Iniesta, more of an attacking/creator midfielder. Dare I say, an Odegaard-type. I mean, we already have such a player, *cough* Puig *cough*. Too bad Valverde doesn't have the cojones to give him a proper shot.