Athletic Club v Real Sociedad: La Liga matchday 11 preview

The occasion and the table

Athletic Club host Real Sociedad on matchday 11 of La Liga, with kick-off on 1 November 2026 at 20:00. Both sides sit in the upper half of the table, but the visitors arrive in the stronger position.

Real Sociedad are 5th with 19 points from 10 matches. Their record reads 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats, with 19 goals scored and 18 conceded. Athletic Club are 8th with 12 points from 9 matches, having won 3, drawn 3 and lost 3. They have scored 12 and conceded 9.

Recent form and home/away records

Athletic Club come into the match on the back of a 6-1 away win over AE Prat. Before that they beat Getafe 4-0 at home. Before that they lost 3-1 away to Levante, and before that they drew 0-0 away at Valencia. Their earliest match in this run was a 0-0 home draw with Alavés. That adds up to 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Real Sociedad are unbeaten across their last five, with 4 wins and 1 draw. Most recently they beat Levante 2-1 at home. Before that they won 6-0 away at Lillestrøm, and before that they won 5-2 away at Málaga. Before that came a 1-1 away draw with Union Saint-Gilloise, and before that a 3-2 home win over Deportivo La Coruña.

Athletic Club’s home record in La Liga this season stands at 5 matches, 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat, with 9 goals scored and 4 conceded. Real Sociedad have played 5 league matches away from home, winning 3 and losing 2 without a draw. They have scored 12 goals on the road and conceded 11.

Previous meetings

Recent history favours Real Sociedad. In the most recent meeting, on 4 March 2026, they beat Athletic Club 1-0 at home. Before that, on 11 February 2026, Real Sociedad won 1-0 away at Athletic Club. Before that, on 1 February 2026, the sides drew 1-1 at Athletic Club. The earliest of the last 4 meetings was on 1 November 2025, when Real Sociedad won 3-2 at home.

Athletic Club have not won any of those four matches, and they have scored in only two of them.

Players to watch

Alejandro Berenguer Remiro is Athletic Club’s top scorer in La Liga this season with 3 goals. Luka Sucic leads the way for Real Sociedad, also with 3 league goals. The two leading scorers on each side are level, and either could have a bearing on a fixture that has often been tight.

How the two sides tend to play

The numbers point to two different profiles. Athletic Club have been the tighter side defensively. They have conceded 9 goals in 9 league matches and only 4 in 5 at home. In their last 5 matches they scored in 3, kept a clean sheet in 3, and both teams scored in 2. Three of those five matches produced either a clean sheet or a goalless draw, a sign that their matches have rarely been open affairs.

Real Sociedad’s matches have tended to be higher-scoring at both ends. They have 19 goals scored and 18 conceded in the league, and 12 scored and 11 conceded away from home. In their last 5 matches they scored in all 5 but kept just 1 clean sheet, and both teams scored in 4 of them.

The contrast is clear. Athletic Club’s home defence, with 4 goals conceded in 5 matches, will face a Real Sociedad side that has found the net in every one of its last five outings.

Estimated win chances

Estimated win chances from market data, computed by goal888 with the margin removed, put Athletic Club at 44%, the draw at 26% and Real Sociedad at 30%. These figures are estimates, not a prediction.

Calculated from market prices, not a prediction or betting advice.