Valencia played four decent matches with their new coach in the new year. They only lost the one against Real Madrid 1:2 at home. However, they returned to the last place in the standings, despite advancing to the quarterfinals in the cup tournament during the week. Valencia has only two wins this season in La Liga, both at home against Girona and Betis.
Real Sociedad has two days less to recover, as they played on Thursday in the cup and also advanced. Overall, they rarely concede goals and only Atletico Madrid has conceded fewer goals. Otherwise, they were in seventh place before this round, and eight out of their nine away games in the championship had under 2.5 goals, losing 0:2 to Celta in the last one.
Prediction: under 2.5 goals, XValencia seems to show slight signs of improvement, but they need to continue and even build on that if they want to move away from the bottom. They now host tough Real Sociedad, who will definitely not give up easily. I think we could see another match with under 2.5 goals or possibly a draw in the game.
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