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Real Sociedad vs Barcelona Prediction & Betting tips
The English weeks continue in Spain, this time the Spanish Super Cup is on the program, which, like last year, will be held in Final Four mode.
Cup finalists Real Sociedad and runners-up FC Barcelona will duel in the first semi-final on Wednesday evening, before champions Real Madrid and the second cup finalist Athletic Bilbao play off the second finalists on Thursday evening.
Unlike last year, the games will not take place in Saudi Arabia, but due to the current crisis in Spain. The game is played in three different cities in Andalusia. The first semi-final will be held in Cordoba, the second in Malaga, while the grand final will be held on Sunday in Seville at the La Cartuja Olympic Stadium.
If we look at the odds of the best bookmakers before the game Real Sociedad vs. Barcelona, we see that the Catalans are considered favorites in the first semifinals.
Real Sociedad :
Real Sociedad is currently going through a difficult phase and is not going into this semi-final game full of self-confidence. The Basques could only win one of the last nine league games (1S / 4U / 4N). If you add the results in the Europa League, there is only one win in the last twelve games.
Noticeable: Real Sociedad has a hard time scoring goals: only in two of these twelve games did they score more than one goal. This last happened in the game at Sevilla CF, but Real Sociedad lost 3-2 in a turbulent game – because this time the defense was not stable either.
While the Basques were ranked first in the league five match days ago, this negative run made them fifth. In this bad phase, it is now against FC Barcelona, who are in a good mood themselves and recently made acquaintance with Real Sociedad. This duel already took place in La Liga in mid-December, when Barça won 2-1 at Camp Nou.
David Silva is back in the Supercopa. The midfielder was missing several games due to a muscle injury and was sorely missed in these games as the fulcrum in the attacking midfield. Against Barça, the ex-Manchester City player is at least back in the squad. It is unlikely that Silva will play right from the start, after all, he was not part of the game at the weekend in Seville.
With or without Silva: Real Sociedad is the outsider in this first semi-final game – also and especially because of the weak condition the team is in. That is also revealed by the betting odds before Real Sociedad vs. Barcelona.
Barcelona :
While Real Sociedad is not going through a good phase, the situation at FC Barcelona is completely different. The Catalans have been unbeaten in eight league games and have recorded four wins in a row. The appearances in Valladolid (3: 0), Bilbao (3: 2) and Granada (4: 0) give the Catalans courage.
Not only did Messi and Co. achieve four wins in a row abroad, the manner in which they were made makes Blaugrana positive. Especially superstar Messi presented himself – like the entire team – full of enthusiasm and self-confidence. The Argentine has scored ten goals in the last eleven games and has scored twice in the most recent two games in Bilbao and Granada.
Here, Messi was directing in a new and old position, as in the best of times, as coach Ronald Koeman recently changed his system. Koeman played for months in his favorite 4-2-3-1, but most recently he played the Barça-typical 4-3-3, in which Messi was positioned with all freedom as the wrong nine.
In this role Messi felt very comfortable and caused chaos in the back teams of the opponents. It is therefore to be expected that Barça will also play against Real Sociedad in this system.
Real Sociedad vs Barcelona head to head matches
16.12.20 LL Barcelona Real Sociedad 2 : 1
07.03.20 LL Barcelona Real Sociedad 1 : 0
14.12.19 LL Real Sociedad Barcelona 2 : 2
20.04.19 LL Barcelona Real Sociedad 2 : 1
15.09.18 LL Real Sociedad Barcelona 1 : 2