Real Sociedad 1 - Las Palmas 1

Real Sociedad: Alberto; Fuentes, Corino, Pikabea, Aranzábal; Tayfun, Aranburu, López Rekarte (Khokhlov 80'), De Pedro (Rubén Vega 60'); De Paula (Gabilondo 83'), Jankauskas. 4-4-2.
Las Palmas: Nacho González; Edu Alonso, Alvaro, Schurrer, Paqui, Angel; Ramón (Jaime Molina 87'), Samways, Josico; Guayre (Pablo Lago 75'), Orlando. 5-3-2.

Team changes: Real: Aranzábal, Tayfun, De Paula for Idiakez, Rubén Vega, Khokhlov / Las Palmas: Samways, Ramón for Jorge, Jaime Molina.

Goals:
0-1. 75. Guayre. Took ball outside area, rounded keeper and scored from wide out.
1-1. 79. Jankauskas (penalty). After Ramón ruled to have fouled Corino.

Real Sociedad stay down in the relegation zone after another disappointing performance, drawing at home to newly promoted Las Palmas. The San Sebastian team appear to be continuing on where they left off last season, and they remain in eighteenth place in the league having still only won one game out of seven in the Anoeta stadium. Periko Alonso is however recovering his injured players, and Tayfun returned to the side for his first appearance since the opening game of the season, when he injured himself. Aranzábal also returned to the side, and Alonso opted to include De Paula as a second striker alongside Jankauskas up front. Vinny Samways returned to the Las Palmas side after a one match suspension, but Sergio Kresic was missing his young goalscorer from last week, Jorge, who picked up a groin strain in training, and with Jarni still out, Ramón came in for a rare appearance.

The first half was enormously disappointing, with neither keeper getting his gloves dirty in all of the first 45 minutes. The closest anyone came to scoring was when Fuentes miskicked in his own penalty area and Alberto had to save with his feet as the ball was going in. The story repeated itself in the second half, with Alberto finally getting his hands on the ball in the seventieth minute after a header from Alvaro. With a quarter of an hour to go Guayre decided to take matters into his own hands, and the new under 21 international put on a turn of speed to leave first Pikabea and then Corino for dead before rounding Alberto to score. Unfortunately he fell badly on scoring and dislocated his shoulder, and had to be replaced by Pablo Lago, himself returning to the squad after an injury.

Real were woken from their stupour, and in almost their next play Ramón brought down Corino and referee Turienzo Alvarez pointed to the spot. Once again it was Jankauskas who came to the rescue, tucking the ball past Nacho González for his sixth of the season. In the last minute of the game the referee showed a red card to the Las Palmas massagist Aparicio, who had accused him of shying off from showing a second yellow card to a Real player, a strange statement to make given that Turienzo had already shown nine yellow cards in the match. That was about it, and the point for Las Palmas keeps them safely up in eleventh place.