Expected line-ups

Each side's usual system and players over its recent matches, without the injured: a likely eleven, not the team news.

Real Sociedad4-3-3 DM Wide

Măriean Pons Gratacós Cortés Manuel Vidal Puflene Adolfo Carlos Luis Cabezuelo Javier Borge

Real Betis4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide

Casasola Luis Álvarez Angel Rico Òscar Javier Sanchís Coll Eloi Gil Manuel José Porras

• Out: José Ramón Perera (left winger, injured: sports hernia, back about 28 January)

Form

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Athletico Madrid	18	+17	43
2	Barcelona	18	+17	40
3	Villarreal	18	+13	36
4	Real Sociedad	18	+8	30
5	Real Betis	18	+2	29
6	Girona	18	+10	28
7	Vigo	18	-1	24
8	Real Madrid FC	18	+6	23
9	Valencia	18	-5	23
10	Ponferrada	18	+1	22
11	Sevilla	18	-1	22
12	A. Bilbao	18	-2	22
13	Vallecano	18	-2	22
14	Getafe	18	-7	22
15	Levante	18	-4	21
16	Espanyol	18	-8	21
17	Oviedo	18	-4	19
18	Alavés	18	-11	19
19	Leganés	18	-6	16
20	C. Leonesa	18	-23	8

Head to head

• Real Betis 3-2 Real Sociedad Spanish Second Division
• Real Sociedad 0-1 Real Betis Spanish Second Division
• Real Sociedad 3-0 Real Betis Spanish First Division
• Real Betis 1-1 Real Sociedad Spanish First Division
• Real Betis 2-0 Real Sociedad Spanish First Division