Real Sociedad de Fútbol 2-1 Levante UD: Primera Division Match Report, 25 October 2026

Our preview of this match was written on 18 October 2026 but only went live on 1 November, after the final whistle. Its pick is reviewed below as it was written, and it is left out of our win rate and bankroll.

Real Sociedad have now won four league matches in a row, and in the fourth all of the scoring was done by half-time: Real Sociedad de Fútbol 2-1 Levante UD, the same score at the interval as at the end. The record does not say in what order the three goals came, so whether Levante ever led is not known. What it does show is a one-goal lead carried through a goalless second half.

Real Sociedad started the day fifth on 16 points from nine games, with a goal difference of zero, after winning 5-2 at Málaga the previous weekend. Levante were thirteenth on 10, -2, and came in off a 3-1 home win over Athletic Club four days earlier. Both had conceded seventeen in nine.

Since a 0-3 home defeat by Atlético in September, Real Sociedad have won 3-2 at Valencia, 3-2 against Deportivo, 5-2 at Málaga and now this, conceding in each. Eight of their ten league matches have produced three goals or more.

Levante are still without an away win: six trips, three draws, three defeats. Real Sociedad, meanwhile, have been ahead at half-time in all three meetings on record between the clubs, and have lost none of them.

Nineteen points from ten games is already more than two-fifths of the 46 Real Sociedad took in the whole of last season. That side drew thirteen times; this one has drawn once in ten. The goal difference is less flattering, +1 from nineteen scored and eighteen conceded, and three of the four wins in this run were by a single goal, with a goal conceded in each.

Levante stay on 10 from ten, about a point behind last season's rate, when they took 42 from 38. Their split is the clearest thing about them so far: seven points from four home matches, three from six away, and thirteen goals scored at home against three on the road. With twenty-eight matches left, that split has plenty of room to move.

Our preview's call was Over 2.5 Goals at 1.72.

The case was two leaky defences and a Real Sociedad home record of eleven goals in four matches; the objection was Levante's away profile, two goals scored in five trips. Both defences conceded again here. But the preview's table was a week old by kick-off. It set a mid-table home side against a seventeenth-placed visitor "already calculating", and after it was written Levante beat Athletic 3-1 and climbed to thirteenth, while Real Sociedad won 5-2 at Málaga. Those results added to the goals case, but the argument about motivation rested on a table that no longer existed. A goalless second half also showed how little room there was above the line.

Verdict: not counted. The pick would have won, but the preview only went live after kick-off.