Real Sociedad de Fútbol 3-2 RC Deportivo La Coruña: Primera Division Match Report, 11 October 2026

Two goals up at half-time, and it still went to the final whistle. Real Sociedad de Fútbol 3-2 RC Deportivo La Coruña, 2-0 at the break, which means the second half was lost 1-2 by the home side and a two-goal lead became a one-goal win. The order the three second-half goals arrived in is not on record, so whether this was a comeback halted or a lead rebuilt cannot be said; what the record shows is a match Real Sociedad had two goals in hand on at the interval and still had to see out.

The two clubs came in level on ten points from seven matches, seventh and eighth, separated by six goals of difference. They had arrived there by opposite routes. Real Sociedad's seven games were three wins, a draw and three defeats, and the defeats were heavy enough — 4-1 at Real Madrid CF, 0-3 at home to Club Atlético de Madrid — to leave them on minus four. Deportivo, newly promoted, had lost once in seven and drawn four: 1-1 against Elche CF, 1-1 at Málaga CF, 1-1 at Getafe CF and 1-1 at home to Real Betis Balompié, with wins over Valencia CF and at Villarreal CF either side of them.

That last detail is what makes the scoreline notable. Deportivo had conceded a single goal in six of their seven matches and never more than two. Three against them in one afternoon, two of them inside the first half, was comfortably the most porous ninety minutes of their season to date, and it came from a side whose own attack had managed nine goals in seven.

No preview accompanied this fixture. The site was not being updated through the first half of October, so there is no call of ours to measure the result against — only the result.

Real Sociedad went to thirteen points from eight and a second straight win, having taken 2-3 at Valencia CF in the round before. The goal difference stayed negative at minus three, which is the honest summary of their season: a side capable of winning away at two of the division's strugglers and of losing at home by three. They finished tenth last season on forty-six points with a difference of minus two, and eight matches in they were tracking almost exactly the same profile. They then won 5-2 at Málaga CF on 18 October, which made it three wins in a row and the strongest run of their campaign.

Deportivo stayed on ten points, slipped from seventh to eighth and saw their goal difference cut from plus two to plus one — the first time all season it had moved against them. A promoted club with ten points from eight and a single defeat had been quietly outperforming its billing, and what this cost was a place in the table rather than any kind of safety margin, with the bottom three still well below them. Five days later they drew 1-1 at home with Levante UD — a fifth draw in nine — which is the number that will define their season if it keeps growing.