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Real Sociedad and Villarreal play at Estadio Municipal de Anoeta in a Copa del Rey match (Eighth Finals). At this stage, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the visiting team, which has 2 wins and 4 draws in the last 6 games. In fact, the last time they faced in this stadium was on 20-12-2015, in a game for the Primera Division that ended the victory of Villarreal by (0-2). The goals of the match were scored by Denis Suárez (27 ‘and 88’) for Villarreal. In this match the home factor may play an important role, since Villarreal has significant differences in the results achieved at home and as a visitor.
Real Sociedad
The home team arrives at this stage of the Copa del Rey (Round of 16) after a home draw for (1-1) and a away win for (1-3) with Valladolid. This is a team little affected by the house factor, that is, presents similar results at home and away, since in the last 30 matches has recorded 7 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses as a visitor, with 22 goals scored and 19 conceded, against 7 victories , 5 draws and 3 home defeats, with 22 goals scored and 15 conceded. In the last 10 home games Real Sociedad has recorded 5 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. His attack has scored regularly as he has scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 games. The team do not usually have a hard time opening the scoring: they managed to score the first goal in 10 of their last 11 outings, 10 of which reached the lead in 4 and managed to maintain the lead until the end of the 90 ‘in 7.
The Real Sociedad team comes to this game with a draw in 1-1 against Valladolid, adding in this way the third consecutive game without losing: Juanmi scored the only goal of the team. In this first round coach Eusebio should keep the team at 4-2-3-1 with Willian Jose being the most offensive reference: this player is the top scorer of Real Sociedad with 9 goals scored. It is important to note that the home team has not lost in their field for eight consecutive games. For this game the coach can not count on Matinez, Agirretxe, Zurutuza, Bergara, Carlos Vela and Granero, players who recover from injury.
Villarreal
The visiting team arrives at this stage of the Copa del Rey (Round of 16) after a 1-1 home draw and a 0-3 win with Toledo. This is a stronger team when you play in your stadium, because in the last 30 games you have 3 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses as a visitor; Against 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses in his stadium. In the last 10 games as a visitor Villarreal won 2, drew 6 and lost 2. His attack has regularly scored, as he has scored goals in 7 of the last 10 games. In 15 games, he suffered the first goal 6 times and only got 1 turn on the scoreboard. In the last 14 away games for all competitions there has been 1 period that stands out: suffered 5 of his 11 goals between minutes (76’-90 ‘).
The yellow submarine arrives in this game with a 1-1 draw against Toledo, in play for this competition: the only goal of the team was scored by Alexandre Pato. The visiting team plays in a different tactical system in relation to their opponents, that is, lines 4-4-2, however, privileges possession of the ball and attacks through the sides. Nicola Sansone is Villarreal’s top scorer with 6 goals scored. The last defeat away from home was against Athletic Bilbao, played on November 11, in play by the Spanish championship. For this game the visiting coach can not count on Musacchio, Rukavina, Castillejo, Soldado, Bakambu, Cheryshev and Bonera, all injured.
Prediction: over 1.5 goals @ 1.45