Last season seemed to be very successful for Real Sociedad when they finished in 6th place in the table, but the current season is one of the best in the last few years. They are currently in third place in the table with only 6 points less than first place Barcelona. Sociedad have been playing really fantastic lately and they fully deserve to be in such a high position in the table. They are in a streak of 8 matches without defeat in all competitive matches, while they only know of victories in the last 5. The last league game perhaps best shows the current strength of this team. They played the biggest derby of the Basque Country against Bilbao on their home field and achieved a sure victory of 3-1. It was their first win in the derby after three games and the confidence of the players is definitely at a very high level before this match. A big advantage for Sociedad in this match will be the return to the team of Mikel Oyarzabal, who was injured for a long time, but is slowly returning to competitive form. The goal he scored in the derby against Bilbao certainly meant a lot to his self-confidence and I expect that he will be one of the main players of his team today.

They are visited by Mallorca, which plays very unattractive and competitive football. They are in a pretty good 10th place in the table and have a very, one might say, strange goal difference. After 17 rounds played, they only have 14 goals scored and 16 goals conceded, which only confirms that today we probably won't see any very interesting match with a lot of goals. Despite the great form of the hosts, Mallorca knows how to slow down the game with a stubborn defense and an idealess game in attack. They have a very good goalkeeper, Rajkovic, who managed to keep a clean sheet in the last 6 out of 8 games, but today the team's backup goalkeeper, Dominik Greif, should be expected in goal. It is known that coaches like to give a chance to reserve goalkeepers in cup matches, but the question is how well Greif will be able to respond to today's task because he was injured for a long time and lately he has not had the opportunity to be between the posts often. In the previous matches in the cup, Mallorca had no problems with amateur club CD Autol (6-0), but certain problems showed themselves against teams from the third league in the second and third rounds. Although they have not conceded a goal so far, the narrow 1-0 win and 2-0 after extra time do not inspire confidence before the game with Sociedad. As I already said, we shouldn't expect an attractive game, but Sociedad is currently in much better shape and they rarely slip at home, so at this point I have to give them the advantage.

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上赛季对于皇家社会来说似乎非常成功，他们在积分榜上排名第六，但本赛季是过去几年里最好的赛季之一。他们目前在积分榜上排名第三，仅比第一名巴塞罗那少6分。Sociedad最近踢得非常棒，他们完全值得在积分榜上占据如此高的位置。他们在所有的正式比赛中已经连续8场比赛不败，而他们只知道最近5场比赛取得胜利。上一场联赛也许最能说明这支球队目前的实力。他们在自己的主场与毕尔巴鄂进行了巴斯克地区最大的德比，并以3-1的比分稳操胜券。这是他们在三场比赛后的第一场德比胜利，在这场比赛之前，球员们的信心肯定处于非常高的水平。Sociedad在这场比赛中的一大优势将是米克尔·奥亚尔扎巴尔(Mikel Oyarzabal)的回归，他受伤了很长一段时间，但正在慢慢恢复竞技状态。他在与毕尔巴鄂的德比战中打进的那粒进球无疑对他的自信心有很大的帮助，我希望他今天能成为球队的主力之一。

他们被马略卡(Mallorca)拜访，马略卡踢着非常不吸引人、竞争激烈的足球。他们在积分榜上排名第十，而且净胜球的差距非常奇怪。在17轮比赛后，他们只进了14球，丢了16球，这只能证实今天我们可能不会看到任何进球很多的有趣比赛。尽管东道主的状态很好，马洛卡知道如何用顽强的防守和不理想的进攻来减慢比赛的速度。他们有一个非常优秀的门将，拉伊科维奇，他在8场比赛中的最后6场比赛中保持了零失球，但今天球队的替补门将多米尼克·格雷夫应该会进球。众所周知，教练们喜欢在杯赛中给替补门将一个机会，但问题是格雷夫能在多大程度上应对今天的任务，因为他受伤了很长一段时间，最近他没有机会经常出现在门柱之间。在此前的杯赛中，马洛卡在对阵业余俱乐部CD Autol(6-0)时没有任何问题，但在第二轮和第三轮对阵第三联赛的球队时出现了一些问题。虽然到目前为止他们还没有丢球，但在与Sociedad的比赛前，1-0和加时赛后2-0的险胜并没有激发他们的信心。正如我已经说过的，我们不应该期待一场吸引人的比赛，但Sociedad目前的状态要好得多，他们很少在主场打滑，所以在这一点上我必须给他们优势。