Real Sociedad vs Girona prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2025-12-11 20:00.
[p]Peering anxiously over their shoulder towards the La Liga drop zone, Real Sociedad know a defeat against 18th-placed Girona would drag them even deeper into trouble.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Not since the 2015/16 season have Sociedad had as few as 16 points after 15 La Liga rounds, with that tally at least ten points worse than they’d accumulated at this stage in five of the previous six seasons. Back-to-back league defeats have brought them firmly back down to earth following a mini revival that saw them go five games unbeaten from mid-October to mid-November (W3, D2). They can at least lean on three of their four league wins this season coming on home soil for a bit of confidence, but a Friday night clash doesn’t seem ideal as they bid to return to winning ways, considering they have won only three of their last 11 Friday-held top-flight games (D4, L4).[/p]
[p]Girona’s situation looks much more desperate than Sociedad’s given they reside in the bottom three, but just three defeats from their last ten La Liga games (W2, D5) isn’t the kind of form that’s synonymous with a struggling side. Girona sit in mid-table in the ten-game form table, and while that’s a position they’re hoping to manoeuver into soon enough in the league itself, a failure to win an away league game this season (D3, L4) threatens to be their undoing. Struggling on the road has been a long-standing issue for Girona, who have now won just one of their last 16 La Liga road trips (D5, L10), with one of those defeats coming in this corresponding fixture last season.[/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Girona have faced Sociedad more times than any other side in La Liga without ever winning (D6, L4) and have never won a historical away H2H in any competition (D4, L6).[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Sociedad are the worst-performing first-half side in La Liga this season (HT: W1, D7, L7).[/p]
[p]Sociedad have scored 14 of their 19 La Liga goals this term after half-time. [/p]
[p]Girona have scored four of their five away league goals this season before the 30th minute. [/p]
[p]Only Oviedo (134) have attempted fewer La Liga shots than Girona (137) this campaign. [/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Sociedad’s Gonçalo Guedes saw his last four strikes at club level come in games that saw his team on the day win and score 3+ goals. Girona could look to Vladyslav Vanat in response, given he’s netted four of his last five club goals on the road. [/p]
[p]Sociedad’s lengthy injury list is headlined by Mikel Oyarzabal, while Girona remain without the influential Cristhian Stuani.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]With the hosts tending to save their best for after half-time, we’re backing over 1.5 second-half goals. [/p]
[p][i]Author: Chris Wilson[/i][/p]