📊 Form Guide

Espanyol

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Espanyol will be looking for a repeat result of the 1-2 La Liga triumph vs Osasuna.

In that match, Espanyol had 32% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For Espanyol, the goalscorers were Romero (27') and García (53'). For their opponents, Osasuna had 24 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Muñoz (49') scored for Osasuna.

Over their past 6 fixtures, Manolo González's Espanyol have hit the back of the net a total of 5 times, an average number of goals per match of 0.83.

Coming into this clash, Espanyol have not won against Real Sociedad in their previous 6 league matches.

Real Sociedad

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Since a loss in their previous game against Valencia in La Liga competition, Real Sociedad will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Real Sociedad managed 55% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Real Sociedad, the goals were scored by Muñoz (3') and Orri Steinn Óskarsson (63'). Valencia had 13 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Guerra (8', 93'), Duro (22'), Tárrega (60' Own goal) and Guido Rodríguez (89') scored for Valencia.

Demonstrating their penchant for action-packed encounters, goals have been scored 21 times in the prior 6 matches in which Real Sociedad have taken to the pitch, making it a mean average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Their opponents have managed 12 of this grand total. That sort of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, though.

Pre-game facts show that Real Sociedad:

• have not lost to Espanyol in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at past results between these clubs stretching back to 04/04/2022 shows that these fixtures have not been good ones for Espanyol. They’ve not managed to get any wins whatsoever whereas Real Sociedad have just been stronger than them, beating them in 83 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 6 from Periquitos and 11 created by Txuri-urdin. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The previous league fixture between these sides was La Liga match day 2 on 24/08/2025 and the score finished Real Sociedad 2-2 Espanyol.

That time, Real Sociedad managed 62% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Goals were scored by Barrenetxea (61') and Orri Steinn Óskarsson (69').

For their opponents, Espanyol had 14 shots on goal with 3 on target. Milla (10') and Puado (45') scored.

The referee was Alejandro Quintero González.

📋 Team News: Espanyol

In our view, Periquitos look set to line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for the game featuring Marko Dmitrovic, Omar El Hilali, Clemens Riedel, Leandro Cabrera, Carlos Romero, Edu Exposito, U. Gonzalez de, Tyrhys Dolan, Ramon Terrats, Pere Milla and Roberto Fernandez.

📰 Team News: Real Sociedad

It’s our belief that Txuri-urdin will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Alex Remiro, Jon Aramburu, Jon Martin, Duje Caleta-Car, Sergio Gomez, Benat Turrientes, Carlos Soler, Takefusa Kubo, Arsen Zakharyan, Pablo Marin and Mikel Oyarzabal.

✨ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Real Sociedad will have their work cut out to break down this Espanyol outfit who should get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why we have predicted a highly competitive game with a 1-0 win for Espanyol after 90 minutes.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

Renata Leite, 01:05 23/05/2026